Phasianella

Phasianella
Temporal range: Badenian[1]-Recent
A shell of Phasianella solida on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Bolina Rafinesque, 1815
  • Eutropia Gray, 1847
  • Orthopnoea Gistl, 1848
  • Pasianella Gregorio, 1922
  • Phaisianella King & Ping, 1933
  • Thasianella Tolmer, 1928

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.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Robertson 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lamarck (1804). Ann. Mus. H.N., Paris, 4(22): 295.
  3. ^ "IRMNG - Phasianella Lamarck, 1804". irmng.org. Retrieved 2024-04-19.