Bela turgida

Bela turgida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bela
Species:
B. turgida
Binomial name
Bela turgida
(Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleurotoma turgida Reeve, 1844

Bela turgida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

This name of this species is considered a nomen dubium

Nomenclature

Nordsieck (1977: 45) interpreted Pleurotoma turgida Reeve 1844 as a synonym of the preoccupied Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836.[2] However, van Aartsen (1988) considered P. turgida as a nomem dubium, despite the fact that Reeve's name (which was based on the same Aegean material of Forbes (1844) and proposed a replacement name Bela menkhorsti [3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bela turgida (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. ^ Nordsieck F 1977 The Turridae of the European Seas. La Conchiglia, Roma. 131 pp.
  3. ^ Van Aartsen JJ. 1988a. European Mollusca: notes on less well-known species. XII. Bela menkhorsti nom. nov. = Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836 not Deshayes, 1835 and Fehria (nov. gen.) zenetouae nov. spec. La Conchiglia 20 (232–233): 30–31


This Mangeliidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.