Phasianella solida

Phasianella solida, common name the solid pheasant, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phasianellidae.

Protoconch is smooth and the shell is brilliant, long, thin and turban-shaped, usually pale brown, reddish or pinkish, marked with variable blotches.

The thickened columella has a heavy white or rosy callus, and is subdentate near the posterior angle of the aperture.

[2] (Description of Phasianella variegata Lamarck, 1822) The solid shell grows to a height of 2 cm and has an ovate-conic shape.

This quite common species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; off the Aldabra Atoll;in the tropical Indo-West Pacific: off southern Australia, the Philippines, off Java and Japan.