Tricolia pullus (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Pheasant Shell)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesTricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell)
GenusTricolia (a genus of molluscs)
FamilyPHASIANELLIDAE (a family of molluscs)
SuperfamilyPHASIANELLOIDEA (a superfamily of molluscs)
SubclassVETIGASTROPODA (a subclass of molluscs)
ClassGASTROPODA (slugs and snails)
PhylumMOLLUSCA (slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs)
SuperphylumLOPHOTROCHOZOA (molluscs and relatives)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of Tricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell) :
1: Tricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell)
21 Jan 2011 OSGR: SY67 50° 40’ N, 2° 30’ W Vice County: Dorset (VC 9) England
from (mostly red) seaweed in rock pool at low tide
Image 1: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 2: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (2)Image 3: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (3)Image 4: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (4)Image 5: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (5)Image 6: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (6)Image 7: Crawling - viewed from above - highly enlarged - white background (7)Image 8: Crawling - viewed from below - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 9: Crawling - viewed from below - highly enlarged - white background (2)Image 10: Crawling - viewed from below - highly enlarged - white background (3)Image 11: Crawling - viewed from below - highly enlarged - white background (4)Image 12: Crawling - viewed from below - highly enlarged - white background (5)Image 13: Crawling - viewed from left side below - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 14: Crawling - viewed from left side below - highly enlarged - white background (2)Image 15: Crawling - viewed from right side below - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 16: Crawling - viewed from upper left side - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 17: Crawling - viewed from upper left side - highly enlarged - white background (2)Image 18: Crawling - viewed from upper left side - highly enlarged - white background (3)Image 19: Crawling - viewed from upper left side - highly enlarged - white background (4)Image 20: Crawling - viewed from viewed from left side below - highly e - highly enlarged - white backgroundImage 21: Crawling - viewed from viewed from left side below - highly e - highly enlarged - white background (2)Image 22: Operculum - magnifiedImage 23: Operculum - magnified (2)Image 24: Operculum - magnified (3)Image 25: Shell - dry - body whorl view - highly enlargedImage 26: Shell - dry - mouth view - highly enlargedImage 27: Shell - dry - mouth view - highly enlarged (2)Image 28: Shell - wet - body whorl view - highly enlargedImage 29: Shell - wet - mouth view - highly enlarged

Tricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Tricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Tricolia pullus (Pheasant Shell)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)