Phos textus (Gmelin 1791)

Phos textus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Taxon inquirendum

• Phos textus var. rhodostoma E. von Martens, 1880

Description

The length of the shell attains 19.3 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mascarene Basin and off the Solomon Islands.

References

• Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
• Fraussen K. & Poppe G.T. (2005) Revision of Phos and Antillophos (Buccinidae) from the Central Philippines. Visaya 1(5): 76-115.