Tricolia bicarinata

Tricolia bicarinata is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.[1]

Tricolia bicarinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Subfamily: Tricoliinae
Genus: Tricolia
Species:
T. bicarinata
Binomial name
Tricolia bicarinata
(Dunker, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Tricolia tropidophora (Tomlin, 1931)

Distribution

This marine species occurs off South Africa.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tricolia bicarinata (Dunker, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593925 on 2013-02-10
  • ilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 47
  • Trew, A., 1984. The Melvill-Tomlin Collection. Part 30. Trochacea. Handlists of the Molluscan Collections in the Department of Zoology, National Museum of Wales.


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