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Bela turgida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bela
Species:	B. turgida
Binomial name
Bela turgida (Reeve, 1844)
Synonyms
Pleurotoma turgida Reeve, 1844

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

This name of this species is considered a nomen dubium

Nomenclature

Nordsieck (1977: 45) interpreted Pleurotoma turgida Reeve 1844 as a synonym of the preoccupied Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836. However, van Aartsen (1988) considered P. turgida as a nomem dubium, despite the fact that Reeve's name (which was based on the same Aegean material of Forbes (1844) and proposed a replacement name Bela menkhorsti

References

1. ^ Bela turgida (Reeve, 1844). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
2. Nordsieck F 1977 The Turridae of the European Seas. La Conchiglia, Roma. 131 pp.
3. 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

• van Aartsen J. J. (1988). Nomenclatural notes 7. Forbes' Aegean Turridae. Bollettino Malacologico 24 (5-8): 141-144
• Mariottini P., Smriglio C., Di Giulio A. & Oliverio M. (2009). "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

External links

• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
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