Vitularia sandwicensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description and distribution The white shell is fusiformly ovate and rather thin. It has about three transverse rows of brown spots on the varices. It contains five sharply angulated whorls. The body whorl is angulated just below the suture. The six varices are slightly oblique and wrinkled. The aperture is white and oblong-ovate. The outer lip is denticulated within. The columella is slightly arched. The siphonal canal is short.G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Distribution This marine species occurs off Hawaii.
References
External links Pease, W. H. (1861). Descriptions of seventeen new species of marine shells, from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of Hugh Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28 ("1860"): 397-400.