Phasianella Temporal range:
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A shell of Phasianella solida on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Phasianellidae |
Subfamily: | Phasianellinae |
Genus: | Phasianella Lamarck, 1804[2] |
Type species | |
Phasianella australis Gmelin, J.F., 1791 | |
Synonyms[3] | |
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Phasianella, common name the pheasant shells, is a genus of small sea snails with a calcareous operculum and a colorfully patterned shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phasianellidae.
Robertson 2010
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