Bela tenuistriata

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

Bela tenuistriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Bela
Species:
B. tenuistriata
Binomial name
Bela tenuistriata
(A. Bell, 1871)
Synonyms
  • Pleurotoma tenuistriata A. Bell, 1871 (original combination)
  • Haedropleura delheidi Vincent, 1890
  • Raphitoma tenuistriata (A. Bell, 1871)
  • Raphitoma tenuistriata var. carinata (Harmer, 1915)
  • Mangelia (Bela) tenuistriata (A. Bell, 1871)

Description

The length of the shell attains 15.6 mm, its diameter 5.2 mm.

Distribution

This extinct marine species was found in the Lower Pliocene strata in East Anglia, Great Britain, and in Belgium

References
  1. R. Marquet, The Pliocene turrid gastropods of Belgium. Part 1: Drilliidae, Turridae, Conidae (genus Bela) ; BULLETIN VAN HET KONINKLIJK BELGISCH INSTITUUT VOOR NATUURWETENSCHAPPEN, AARDWETENSCHAPPEN. 67: 119-151. 1997
  • Bell, A., 1871. Contributions to the Crag Fauna. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7), 4: 351-362


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