Phasianella solida

Phasianella solida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Phasianella
Species: P. solida
Binomial name
Phasianella solida
(Born, 1778)
Synonyms
  • Phasianella histrio Reeve, 1862
  • Phasianella modesta Gould, 1861
  • Phasianella zigzag Odhner, 1919
  • Tricolia brongniartii Audouin, 1826
  • Tricolia guerini Audouin, 1826

Phasianella solida, common name the solid pheasant, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 8 mm and 32 mm. Protoconch is smooth and the shell is brilliant, long, thin and turban-shaped, usually pale brown, reddish or pinkish, marked with variable blotches. It shows four-five rounded whorls. The operculum is white, oval-shaped.

Distribution

This quite common species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Mascarene Basin; in the tropical Indo-West Pacific: off southern Australia, the Philippines and Japan. It lives at intertidal depths up to 15 m.

References

  1. ↑ Phasianella solida (Born, 1778).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 March 2013.
  • Robertson, R. 1985. Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3: 1-103. page(s): 20
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
  • Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing. Vol.1 1st Edn


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