Bela taprurensis

Bela taprurensis
	Shell of Bela taprurensis (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bela
Species:	B. taprurensis
Binomial name
	Bela taprurensis; (Pallary, 1904)
Synonyms
	Bela brachystoma apicalis F. Nordsieck, 1977; Bela taprunensis [sic] (misspelling of Bela taprurensis (Pallary, 1904)); Fehria taprurensis (Pallary, 1904); Ginnania taprurensis Pallary, 1904 (original combination);

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.5 mm, its diameter 2.5 mm.

(Original description) The buff, fusiform shell is narrowly oblong. It contains 7 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls of the teleoconch are slightly convex and are covered with raised longitudinal ribs. The whole surface is equably covered with fine, faintly raised, rounded, spiral threads. The aperture measures about a third of the total length. It is open, and oblong, pointed above, scarcely contracted below, but truncated at the end of the broad open siphonal canal. The columella is hardly twisted. The outer lip is sharp.^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece, Libya and Tunisia

References

^ ^a ^b Bela taprurensis (Pallary, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
^ P., 1904. Addition à la faune malacologique du Golfe de Gabès. Journal de Conchyliologie, 52: 212–248, pl. 7

Bibliography

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
Mariottini P., Smriglio C., Di Giulio A. & Oliverio M. 2009. A new fossil conoidean from the Pliocene of Italy, with comments on the Bela menkhorsti complex (Gastropoda: Conidae). Journal of Conchology 40(1): 5-14
Repetto G., Orlando F. & Arduino G. (2005): Conchiglie del Mediterraneo, Amici del Museo "Federico Eusebio", Alba, Italy

External links

[WoRMS-1] Bela taprurensis (Pallary, 1904). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.

[2] P., 1904. Addition à la faune malacologique du Golfe de Gabès. Journal de Conchyliologie, 52: 212–248, pl. 7

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