Tricolia substriata
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]
| Tricolia substriata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Phasianellidae |
| Genus: | Tricolia |
| Species: | T. substriata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tricolia substriata (Carpenter, 1864) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Phasianella variegata var. substriata Carpenter, 1864 | |
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
- 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
- Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
- G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External links
- To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
- To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
- To ITIS
- To World Register of Marine Species
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