Bellaspira pentagonalis

Bellaspira pentagonalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Drilliidae
Genus: Bellaspira
Species: B. pentagonalis
Binomial name
Bellaspira pentagonalis
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bellaspira pentapleura Schwengel, J.S., 1940
  • Drillia pentagonalis Dall, 1889
  • Fenimorea pagodula pentagonalis (Dall, 1889)

Bellaspira pentagonalis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.[1] [2]

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 10 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs from North Carolina to Florida, and in the Gulf of Mexico along Western Florida and in the Caribbean Sea along Aruba.

References

  1. ^ a b Bellaspira pentagonalis (Dall, 1889).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420289 on 4 September 2011.
  2. ^ P. Bouchet, Yu. I. Kantor, A. Sysoev & N. Puillandre (2011). "A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77 (3): 273–308. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr017.