title: Vexillum semicostatum
text: # Vexillum semicostatum
  
  Vexillum semicostatum, common name the half-ribbed mitre, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
  
  ## Description
  
  The shell size varies between 10 mm and 22 mm
  
  The shell is ovate. The whorls of the spire are obtusely plicately ribbed. The body whorl is smooth. The shell is chestnut-brown, the spire partially white. The columella is four-plaited.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species occurs in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin, Madagascar and in the Pacific Ocean off Queensland, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
  
  