Besla

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Besla

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Orthogastropoda
Order:	Heterostropha
Superfamily:	Pyramidelloidea
Family:	Pyramidellidae
Subfamily:	Chrysallidinae
Genus:	Besla Dall & Bartsch, 1904

Species

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Besla is a small genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is currently placed in the the subfamily Chrysallidinae, of the family Odostomiidae.

[edit] Life habits

Nothing is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae sensu lato, they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

[edit] Species within the genus Besla

Besla convexa (Carpenter, 1857) (Type species) (as Odostomia (Chrysallida) convexa)
Besla articulata (Hedley, 1909)
Besla cossmanni Hornung & Mermod, 1924
Besla dheeradiloki Robba, Di Geronimo, Chaimanee, Negri & Sanfilippo, 2003
Besla insularis (Oliver, 1915)
Besla joae (Saurin, 1961)
Besla ranae (Saurin, 1961)
Besla reamensis (Saurin, 1961)
Besla rossiana Laws, 1941
Besla subrugata (Powell, 1927)
Besla vaga Laws, 1941
Besla waitangiensis Laws, 1941
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[edit] References

Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London, 552 pp.
Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P. (1904). "Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae.". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 17: 1–16.