Eulithidium bellum

Eulithidium bellum, common name the shouldered pheasant shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.^[1]

Eulithidium bellum
Views of a shell of Eulithidium bellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Genus:	Eulithidium
Species:	E. bellum
Binomial name
Eulithidium bellum (M. Smith, 1937)
Synonyms
Littorina adamsii Reeve, 1857 Phasianella bella M. Smith, 1937 Tricolia bella (M. Smith, 1937) Tricolia bellum M. Smith, 1937 Tricolia cebeadamsi Nordsieck, 1973 Turbo caboblanquensis Weisbord, 1962 Turbo pulchellus C. B. Adams, 1845

Description

Th height of the shell varies between 2 mm and 6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Atlantic Ocean off Southern Brazil.