Bela taprurensis

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Bela taprurensis
Bela taprurensis (MNHN-IM-2000-3271).jpeg
Shell of Bela taprurensis (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
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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 [1]
  • Bela brachystoma apicalisF. Nordsieck, 1977
  • Bela taprunensis [sic] (misspelling of Bela taprurensis(Pallary, 1904))
  • Fehria taprurensis(Pallary, 1904)
  • Ginnania taprurensisPallary, 1904 (original combination)

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

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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

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