Eulithidium bellum

Eulithidium bellum
Views of a shell of Eulithidium bellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Eulithidium
Species: E. bellum
Binomial name
Eulithidium bellum
(M. Smith, 1937)
Synonyms
  • Littorina adamsii Reeve, 1857
  • Phasianella bella M. Smith, 1937
  • Tricolia bella (M. Smith, 1937)
  • Tricolia bellum M. Smith, 1937
  • Tricolia cebeadamsi Nordsieck, 1973
  • Turbo caboblanquensis Weisbord, 1962
  • Turbo pulchellus C. B. Adams, 1845

Eulithidium bellum, common name the shouldered pheasant shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.[1]

Description

Th height of the shell varies between 2 mm and 6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Southern Brazil.

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