Tricolia elongata

Tricolia elongata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.

Tricolia elongata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Genus:	Tricolia
Species:	T. elongata
Binomial name
Tricolia elongata (Krauss, 1848)
Synonyms
Phasianella elongata Krauss, 1848 Tricolia alfredensis (Turton, 1932)

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.

References

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
• Robertson, R. (1985). Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3: 1–103. page(s): 21

External links

• T. C. Nangammbi and D. G. Herbert, A new species of pheasant shell from the south-western Indian Ocean (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Phasianellidae: Tricolia), African Invertebrates Vol. 49 (2) pp. 13–19 Pietermaritzburg December, 2008