Tricolia substriata

Tricolia substriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Tricolia
Species: T. substriata
Binomial name
Tricolia substriata
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms

Phasianella variegata var. substriata Carpenter, 1864

Tricolia substriata is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1][2]

Description

The form of the shell is as in Phasianella variegata Lamarck, 1822 but the whorls, except the nuclear whorl, are very delicately striate, the body whorl with about ten striae. [3]

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tricolia substriata (Carpenter, 1864). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575263 on 2013-02-10
  2. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External identifiers for Tricolia substriata
ITIS 70146
WoRMS 575263


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