Eulithidium pulloides

Eulithidium pulloides is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[2][3]

Eulithidium pulloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Genus: Eulithidium
Species:
E. pulloides
Binomial name
Eulithidium pulloides
(Carpenter, 1865) [1]
Synonyms
  • Eulithidium pulloide [sic] (misspelling)
  • Phasianella compta var. pulloides Carpenter, 1865 (original combination)
  • Tricolia pulloides (Carpenter, 1865)

Description

The shell grows to a height of 2.5 mm. The shell is somewhat similar to Tricolia pullus, but is more solid, compact, and has a shorter spire. The suture is distinct.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.

gollark: base64 is pretty much everywhere, it predates 2048/65536 by loads.
gollark: What?
gollark: They also have base2048, which is optimized for Twitter.
gollark: Oh, yes, qntm, it's pretty neat.
gollark: There are over 70000 characters (well, codepoints) by now, it's quite something.

References
  1. Carpenter, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xy,1865, p. 180
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2014). Eulithidium pulloides. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=767148 on 2014-11-07
  3. Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
  • To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
  • To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
  • To ITIS
  • To World Register of Marine Species
  • "Eulithidium pulloides". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.