Phasianella variegata

Phasianella variegata, common name the variegated pheasant, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.[1]

Phasianella variegata
Phasianella variegata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:
Phasianelloidea
Family:
Phasianellidae
Genus:
Phasianella
Species:
P. variegata
Binomial name
Phasianella variegata
Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms
  • Phasianella fulgurata Reeve, 1862
  • Phasianella lentiginosa Reeve, 1862
  • Phasianella lineolata Wood, 1828
  • Phasinella montebelloensis Preston, 1914
  • Phasianella nivosa Reeve, 1848
  • Phasianella rubens Lamarck, 1822
  • Phasianella splendida Philippi, 1853
  • Phasianella viridis Anton

Description

The solid shell grows to a height of 2 cm and has an ovate-conic shape. Its pointed, conic spire is higher and more acute than the spire of Phasianella nivosa. The five, somewhat convex whorls are separated by well marked sutures and are somewhat flattened above. The rather small aperture is short ovate, and measures less than half the length of the shell. It is widely rounded below, and angular above. The columella has a flattened callus. The parietal wall has a more or less white callus, and is decidedly thickened near the posterior angle. The color of the shell is variable, often pale with reddish-brown and white dashes and blotches. It is usually flesh tinted, ashen or brown, more or less clouded with darker and lighter shades, and flammulated with dark and light below the sutures, spirally traversed by narrow hair-like lines of brown or red, interrupted by white dots and intervals. The white is sometimes predominate.

Habitat

This species lives among macroalgae in shallow areas.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania, Madagascar and the Mascarene Basin; off Western Australia.

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References
  1. Phasianella variegata Lamarck, 1822. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 April 2010.
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing. Vol.1 1st Edn
  • "Phasianella variegata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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