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Tricolia elongata

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7841246 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tricolia elongata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.

References

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

Robertson, R. (1985). Archaeogastropod biology and the systematics of the genus Tricolia (Trochacea: Tricoliidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 3: 1–103. page(s): 21

External links

T. C. Nangammbi and D. G. Herbert, A new species of pheasant shell from the south-western Indian Ocean (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Phasianellidae: Tricolia), African Invertebrates Vol. 49 (2) pp.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tricolia elongata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.