Eulithidium thalassicola

Eulithidium thalassicola, common name the turtle grass pheasant shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phasianellidae.^[1]

Eulithidium thalassicola
Several shells of Eulithidium thalassicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Phasianellidae
Genus:	Eulithidium
Species:	E. thalassicola
Binomial name
Eulithidium thalassicola (Robertson, 1958)
Synonyms
Tricolia tesselata auct. non C. B. Adams, 1850 Tricolia thalassicola Robertson, 1958 (original combination) Turbo umbilicatus d'Orbigny, 1842

Description

The height of the shell varies between 2 mm and 7.1 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles; in the Western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Brazil.