Phasianella

Phasianella
Temporal range:
A shell of Phasianella solida on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Phasianellidae
Subfamily: Phasianellinae
Genus: Phasianella
Lamarck, 1804
Type species
Phasianella australis Gmelin, J.F., 1791
Synonyms
  • Bolina Rafinesque, 1815
  • Eutropia Gray, 1847
  • Orthopnoea Gistl, 1848
  • Pasianella Gregorio, 1922
  • Phaisianella King & Ping, 1933
  • Thasianella Tolmer, 1928

Phasianella, common name the pheasant shells, is a genus of small sea snails with a calcareous operculum and a colorfully patterned shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phasianellidae.