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Phasianellidae
Sign in to savePhasianellidae, with the common name "pheasant shells" or "pheasant snails", is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Vetigastropoda.
Species
pheasant shells
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyPhasianellidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 280
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Phasianellidae
- Collections
- UF, CAS, PRI, NMV, OMNH, NRM
- Recorded in
- United States, Jamaica, Panama, Seychelles, Marshall Islands, Egypt, Australia, France
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- Parent taxon
- Trochoidea
- Image
- Tricolia gabiniana 002.jpg
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Phasianellidae, with the common name "pheasant shells" or "pheasant snails", is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the subclass Vetigastropoda.
== Taxonomy == The family Phasianellidae consists of three subfamilies: Gabrieloninae Hickman & J.H. McLean, 1990 Gabrielona Iredale, 1917 - type genus of the subfamily Gabrieloninae Phasianellinae Swainson, 1840 - synonym: Eutropiinae Gray, 1871 Mimelenchus Iredale, 1924 Orthomesus Pilsbry, 1888 Phasianella Lamarck, 1804 Tricoliinae Woodring, 1928 Tricolia Risso, 1826 - type genus of the subfamily Tricoliinae
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