Imperforate, furrowed transversely; outer lip crenulated and striated internally; colour grayish white, spotted with black, forming oblique longitudinal bands.
6. Phasianella. The Pheasant Snail. Ten species.
This genus of shells is celebrated for the beauty and variety of the colouring, disposed in such a manner as to resemble the plumage of a pheasant.
They are marine shells, many of which are rare and valuable; they possess a very distinctive character, that of a slightly projecting angle running along the columella.
Shell rather thick, oval, smooth, without epidermis, spire pointed; aperture oval, larger in front, with disunited edges; the right sharp; the columella uniting itself a little with the left edge, and offering interiorly a longitudinal callosity; operculum calcareous, oval, oblong, sub-spiral, the summit at one of its extremities.
Phasianella bulimoides.
P. rubens.
P. variegata.
P. elegans.
P. Peruviana.