''Bela plicatilis'' is a species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...
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[Bouchet, P. (2016). Bela plicatilis (Risso, 1826). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883995 on 2017-03-25]
According to J.K. Tucker ''Mangelia plicatilis'' is a synonym of
Haedropleura septangularis (Montagu, G., 1803) Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682: p. 771
Description
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
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References
G. (2016). Bela plicatilis (Risso, 1826) a valid species (Gastropoda, Conoidea, Mangeliidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 52: 77-78
* Arnaud, P. M., 1978 - ''Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerrannéens introduits par Antoine Risso'' Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, "1977"5 101-150
plicatilis
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