Phalium bandatum
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| Banded bonnet | |
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| A shell of Phalium bandatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cassidae |
| Genus: | Phalium |
| Species: | P. bandatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Phalium bandatum (Perry, 1811) | |
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Phalium bandatum, common name the banded bonnet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae.[1]
There is one subspecies: Phalium bandatum exaratum (Reeve, 1848)
The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 140 mm.
