Eulithidium substriatum

Eulithidium substriatum is a species of small sea snail with calcareous opercula, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae, the pheasant snails.^[1][2]

Eulithidium substriatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Subfamily:	Tricoliinae
Genus:	Eulithidium
Species:	E. substriatum
Binomial name
Eulithidium substriatum (Carpenter, 1864)
Synonyms
Eucosmia variegata substriata P. P. Carpenter, 1864 Phasianella variegata var. substriata Carpenter, 1864 Tricolia substriata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)

Description

(Description as Tricolia substriata) The form of the shell is as in Phasianella variegata Lamarck, 1822 but the whorls, except the nuclear whorl, are very delicately striate, the body whorl with about ten striae.^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Lower California to Panama.