Tricolia ios

Tricolia ios
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Subfamily: Tricoliinae
Genus: Tricolia
Species:
T. ios
Binomial name
Tricolia ios
Robertson, 1985

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the subtidal zone in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

References

  1. ↑ 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.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2013-02-10.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Tricolia ios. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593904 on 2013-02-10
  3. ↑ Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.