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Bela obliquigradata

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Species of gastropod

Bela obliquigradata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bela
Species: B. obliquigradata
Binomial name
Bela obliquigradata
Smith, E.A., 1884

Bela obliquigradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 4 mm. The short shell has an ovate-fusiform shape. It has a pale reddish color. It contains six whorls. The two protoconch whorls are large, smooth, and white. In the third and fourth whorls the spiral lirations are about two or three in number, one encircling the angulation and the rest below it. They are rather stronger than the longitudinal ribs (about 20) and give the whorls a cancellated aspect. In the body whorl these lirae are much finer, very numerous, and closely packed. The aperture is small, narrow. The siphonal canal is short and narrow.

Distribution

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References

  1. Worldwide Mollusc Data base: Bela obliquigradata
  2. Smith, Edgar A. (1884). "Diagnoses of new Species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. vol. 14 ser. 5.

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Taxon identifiers
Bela obliquigradata
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