Tricolia elongata

Tricolia elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Phasianelloidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Genus:	Tricolia
Species:	T. elongata
Binomial name
*Tricolia elongata* (Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms^[1]
Phasianella elongata Krauss, 1848 Tricolia alfredensis (Turton, 1932)

Tricolia elongata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.

References

1 2 Tricolia elongata (Krauss, 1848) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 12 January 2012.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Robertson, R. (1985). Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3: 1-103. page(s): 21

External links

T. C. Nangammbi and D. G. Herbert, A new species of pheasant shell from the south-western Indian Ocean (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Phasianellidae: Tricolia), African Invertebrates Vol. 49 (2) Pages 13–19 Pietermaritzburg December, 2008

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