Tegula eiseni, common name the western banded tegula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tegula |
| Species: | T. eiseni
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| Binomial name | |
| Tegula eiseni (Jordan, 1936)
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Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 13 mm and 22 mm.
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from central California, USA to Baja California, Mexico
References
edit- ^ Tegula eiseni (Jordan, 1936). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.
External links
edit- "Tegula eiseni". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Wallawalla: Tegula eiseni