Bela menkhorsti

Bela menkhorsti
Shells of Bela menkhorsti (lectotype in MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bela
Species:	B. menkhorsti
Binomial name
Bela menkhorsti van Aartsen, 1988
Synonyms. [1]
Pleurotoma nanaScacchi, 1836

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores, Portugal.

References

1. Bela menkhorsti van Aartsen, 1988 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 8 August 2011.

• 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
• Peñas A., Rolán E. & Ballesteros M., 2008: Segunda adición a la fauna malacológica del litoral de Garraf (NE de la Península Ibérica). Iberus 26(2): 15-42
• 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

External links

• Mariottini et al., 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 · October 2009