Phasianella aethiopica

Phasianella aethiopica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.[1]

Phasianella aethiopica
Drawing of a shell of Phasianella aethiopica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Phasianelloidea
Family:
Phasianellidae
Genus:
Phasianella
Species:
P. aethiopica
Binomial name
Phasianella aethiopica
Philippi, 1853

Description

The height of the shell varies between 12 mm and 35 mm. The thick, solid shell has a pointed-ovate shape. The 5–6 whorls are moderately convex, sloping below the sutures. The oblique, ovate aperture is about half the length of shell. The thickened columella has a heavy white or rosy callus, and is subdentate near the posterior angle of the aperture. The color of the shell is light brown or rose, with revolving series of arrow-shapeci or irregular flecks of lighter shade, or with longitudinal oblique light stripes extending downward to middle of body whorl. The apex and the base of the shell are stained with rose color.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and off the Aldabra Atoll; off Java.

References
  1. Phasianella aethiopica Philippi, 1853. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Taylor, J.D. (1973). Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll.
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