Eulithidium substriatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Subfamily: Tricoliinae
Genus: Eulithidium
Species:
E. substriatum
Binomial name
Eulithidium substriatum
(Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Eucosmia variegata substriata P. P. Carpenter, 1864
  • Phasianella variegata var. substriata Carpenter, 1864
  • Tricolia substriata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)

Eulithidium substriatum is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1][2]

Description

(Description as Tricolia substriata) 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]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Lower California to Panama.

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Eulithidium substriatum. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528062 on 2013-02-10
  2. ↑ Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp

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