Vexillum (Protoelongata) species 2

(Figs 72–73)

Comments: So far only dead-collected specimens are known from Papua New Guinea collected by Sandro Gori, and from the Togian Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia, collected by Peter Stahlschmidt. The shell characteristics including the elongated protoconch are characters that assign this species also to the new subgenus Protoelongata . This species is comparable to V. (Pr.) loyaltyense, but in contrast to a narrow white band at the periphery of the whorls, a broad band with a brown line in the middle is present in species 2.