Australian Pheasant | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
Superfamily: | Phasianelloidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Subfamily: | Phasianellinae |
Genus: | Phasianella |
Species: | P. australis |
Binomial name | |
Phasianella australis Gmelin, 1788 |
Phasianella australis, common names the Australian pheasant, painted lady, and pheasant snail, is a medium-sized to large species of sea snail with a calcareous operculum and a colorfully patterned shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Phasianellidae.