Bela submarginata

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

Bela submarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bela
Species:
B. submarginata
Binomial name
Bela submarginata
(G. Bonelli in L.M.D. Bellardi, 1847)
Synonyms
  • Bela submarginata eichwaldi (Friedberg, 1982)
  • Cythara (Mangelia) submarginata (Bonelli, 1847)
  • Mangelia submarginata (Bonelli, 1847)
  • Pleurotoma submarginata (Bellardi, 1847)
  • Raphitoma submarginata Bonelli, 1847 (original combination)

Description

The length of the shell attains 8 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species have been found in the Vienna Basin (Hörnes, 1856) and in Ukraine (Friedberg, 1912) [2]

References
  1. Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Mangeliidae
  2. Waclaw Baluk, Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part IV – Turridae; Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 53 (2003), No. 1, pp. 29-78
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