Eulithidium rubrilineatum

Eulithidium rubrilineatum, common name the red line pheasant, is an extremely small species of sea snail with a calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.^[1][2]

Eulithidium rubrilineatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Subfamily:	Tricoliinae
Genus:	Eulithidium
Species:	E. rubrilineatum
Binomial name
Eulithidium rubrilineatum (Strong, 1928)

Description

This very small shell grows to a height of 1.6 mm. The shell has a depressed turbinate shape. It contains 4-5 whorls. The umbilicus is only a small depression. The calcareous operculum has a white color. The shell shows about a dozen red, oblique spiral lines. The shoulders of the whorls are red with large white spots.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off California.