Bellaspira barbadensis

Bellaspira barbadensis
Shell of Bellaspira barbadensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Drilliidae
Genus:	Bellaspira
Species:	B. barbadensis
Binomial name
Bellaspira barbadensis Fallon, 2016

Bellaspira barbadensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The length of an adult shell varies between 6 mm and 15 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Barbados, the Netherlands Antilles and Venezuela

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2016). Bellaspira barbadensis Fallon, 2016. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871895 on 2016-07-27
2. P. Bouchet; Yu. I. Kantor; A. Sysoev; N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies . 77 (3): 273–308. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyr017 .

• Fallon, P.J. (2016). "Taxonomic review of tropical western Atlantic shallow water Drilliidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea) including descriptions of 100 new species". Zootaxa. 4090 (1): 1–363.

External links

• "Bellaspira barbadensis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.