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.

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