Evalea elegans

Evalea elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Evalea
Species: E. elegans
Binomial name
Evalea elegans
(A. Adams, 1860)
Synonyms[1]
  • Odostomia (Evalea) elegans A. Adams, 1860

Evalea elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.[1]

Description

The shell has a ventricose shape. It is spirally ornamented. The columella is plicate. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2011). Evalea elegans (A. Adams, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581018 on 2011-10-26
  2. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII p. 321; 1889

External links

External identifiers for Evalea elegans
WoRMS 581018


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