Bela (gastropod)

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Bela is a genus of sea snails; marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[2]

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Bela
Shell of Bela nebula, type species of the genus Bela
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bela
Gray, 1847[1]
Type species
Murex nebula (Montagu, 1803)
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Bela (Bela) Leach, 1847
  • Fehria van Aartsen, 1988
  • Ginnania Monterosato, 1884
  • Ichnusa Jeffreys, 1847 (name introduced in synonymy, not available)
  • Lora (Bela) Leach, 1847
  • Mangelia (Bela) J. E. Gray, 1847
  • Petrafixia Cossmann, 1901
  • Pleurotoma (Bela) Leach, 1847
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Taxonomy

Because of taxonomic uncertainty regarding the type species, many authors in the 19th century e.g. G.O. Sars (1878) and W.H.Dall (1919) used the generic name Bela for unrelated species correctly placed in Propebela, Oenopota or Curtitoma, and then used Raphitoma for species currently placed in Bela.[2]

Description

The ovate shell is fusiform. The surface is dull, smooth, or longitudinally ribbed. The spire is elevated and shorter than the body whorl. The columella is flattened. The siphonal canal is short. The outer lip shows a small sinus at its junction with the body whorl.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Bela (gastropod) include:[citation needed]

Species brought into synonymy
Nomina dubia

References

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