Tricolia indica

Tricolia indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Tricolia
Species: T. indica
Binomial name
Tricolia indica
Winckworth, 1940

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Eastern Indian Ocean in the intertidal zone off India.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tricolia indica Winckworth, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593905 on 2013-02-10
  2. 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.
External identifiers for Tricolia indica
WoRMS 593905


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