Bela nebula

Bela nebula

Shell of Bela nebula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Bela
Species:	B. nebula
Binomial name
*Bela nebula* (Montagu, 1803)
Synonyms^[1]
Bela aegeensis (Reeve, 1844) ^[2] Bela ginniana (Risso, 1826) ^[2] Bela nebula vittata Norman, A.M., 1899 Bela septenvillei (Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1913) Buccinum steveni Krynicky, 1837 (dubious synonym) Fusus discrepans Brown, C.T., 1827 Fusus pyramidatus Brown, C.T., 1827 Mangelia (Bela) nebula (Montagu) Mangelia nebula (Montagu, 1803) Mangelia nebula var. lactea Jeffreys, 1867 Murex nebula Montagu, 1803 (original combination) Pleurotoma metcalfei Petit de la Saussaye, S., 1869 Pleurotoma nebula (Montagu, 1803) Pleurotoma nebula var. abbreviata Jeffreys, 1867 Pleurotoma nebula var. elongata'' Jeffreys, 1867 Pleurotoma nebula var. minor Jeffreys, 1867 Pleurotoma nigra Potiez, V.L.V., 1838 Raphitoma affine Locard, E.A.A., 1891 Raphitoma nebula (Montagu, 1803) Raphitoma nebula var. septenvillei Dautzenberg, 1913 Raphitoma septenvillei Dautzenberg & Durouchoux, 1913

Bela nebula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1] It is the type species of the genus Bela.

Taxonomy

Probably Bela nebula forms a complex, where also Bela laevigata belongs to (Ankel 1936, Van Aartsen et al. 1984) ^[3] ^[4]

The shell size varies between 5 mm and 14 mm

This species ioccurs in European waters off Belgium and the British Isles, in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean off Norway, in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain, Portugal, the Azores and Madeira and in the Mediterranean Sea

1 2 Bela nebula (Montagu, 1803). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 August 2011.
1 2 B. Otztürk, Comments on Shells of Mollusca collected from the Seas of Turkey, Turk J Zool, 29, pp. 111-112, 2005 Archived November 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.; accessed : 20 February 2011
↑ Ankel, Wulf Emmo. Prosobranchia. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1936.
↑ Aartsen, JJ van, H. P. M. G. Menkhorst, and E. Gittenberger. "The marine Mollusca of the Bay of Algeciras, Spain, with general notes on Mitrella, Marginellidae and Turridae." Basteria (ISSN 0005-6219)(Suppl. 2 (1984).

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Taxon identifiers	Wd: Q4881823 EoL: 457507 GBIF: 4369330 WoRMS: 139217

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