Eulithidium thalassicola

Eulithidium thalassicola
Several shells of Eulithidium thalassicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Phasianelloidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Eulithidium
Species: E. thalassicola
Binomial name
Eulithidium thalassicola
(Robertson, 1958)
Synonyms
  • Tricolia tesselata auct. non C. B. Adams, 1850
  • Tricolia thalassicola Robertson, 1958 (original combination)
  • Turbo umbilicatus d'Orbigny, 1842

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

Description

The height of the shell varies between 2 mm and 7.1 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Brazil.

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