Eulithidium rubrilineatum, common name the red line pheasant, is an extremely small species of sea snail with a calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1][2]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Phasianellidae |
Subfamily: | Tricoliinae |
Genus: | Eulithidium |
Species: | E. rubrilineatum
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Binomial name | |
Eulithidium rubrilineatum (Strong, 1928)
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Description
editThis very small shell grows to a height of 1.6 mm. The shell has a depressed turbinate shape. It contains 4-5 whorls. The umbilicus is only a small depression. The calcareous operculum has a white color. The shell shows about a dozen red, oblique spiral lines. The shoulders of the whorls are red with large white spots.[3]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Eulithidium rubrilineatum (Strong, 1928). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528061 on 2013-02-10
- ^ 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
- ^ R. Tucker Abbott (1954), American Seashells; Van Nostrand Rheinhold, New York Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
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