Bellacythara bella

Bellacythara bella
Original image of a shell of Bellacythara bella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bellacythara
Species:	B. bella
Binomial name
Bellacythara bella (Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
Clavatula bellaHinds, 1843 Mangilia bella(Hinds, 1843)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm.

The slender shell has a fusiform shape, attenuated below. Its color is pale yellowish brown. The whorls are rounded, longitudinally ribbed, crossed with white raised lines, banded with darker brown round the upper part. The ribs are slender, furnished with small scattered granules, running into a simple suture. The outer lip is thickened. The sinus is small and rather wide. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and Panama.

References

1. WoRMS (2009). Bellacythara bella (Hinds, 1843). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=433124 on 2017-03-29
2. G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences (described as Mangilia bella)

• Hinds, 1844. The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1836-42. Volume II. Mollusca.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
• "Bellacythara bella". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.