Vasum capitellum

<h2 id="shell-description">Shell description</h2>
<p>The length of the shell varies between 33 mm and 79.6 mm.
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<h2 id="distribution">Distribution</h2>
<p>This marine species occurs in the <a href="/facts/Caribbean_Sea/RPnJgdse">Caribbean Sea</a>.
</p><p>Fossils have been found in <a href="/facts/Quaternary/3cEgHAqc">Quaternary</a> strata of the <a href="/facts/Dominican_Republic/u36V3Nsb">Dominican Republic</a> (age range:  2.588 to 0.012 Ma)
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<ul><li>A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886">Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata (10th revised edition), vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832">Perry, G. (1811). Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. 4 pp., 61 plates. London. </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433">Lamarck, (J.-B. M.) de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp.</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vasum capitellum (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533593 on 2023-01-28 <a href="https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533593" target="_blank">https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533593</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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