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.
P. lineata.
P. nebulosa.
P. sulcata.
P. Mauritiana.
P. angulifera.
_P. picta._ The painted Phasianella. Pl. 24, fig. 2.
Species smooth, oval, glossy, volutions inflated; reddish white, with
crimson or reddish brown spots; aperture sub-ovate.