Eulithidium substriatum is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1][2]
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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: | Phasianellidae |
| Subfamily: | Tricoliinae |
| Genus: | Eulithidium |
| Species: | E. substriatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Eulithidium substriatum (Carpenter, 1864)
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Description
edit(Description as Tricolia substriata) The form of the shell is as in Phasianella variegata Lamarck, 1822 but the whorls, except the nuclear whorl, are very delicately striate, the body whorl with about ten striae.[3]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Lower California to Panama.
References
edit- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Eulithidium substriatum. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528062 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
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp
External links
edit- Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Diagnoses of new forms of Mollusca collected at Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, by Mr. Xantus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 3, 13: 311-315; 474-479
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
- Encyclopedia of Life
- ITIS
- World Register of Marine Species
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