''Mitromorpha bella'' 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 in the family

Mitromorphidae Mitromorphidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Mitromorphidae Casey, 1904. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marin ...

.MolluscaBase (2018). Mitromorpha bella Espinosa & Ortea, 2014. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828226 on 2018-03-12

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba.

References

* Espinosa J. & Ortea J. (2014). Nuevas especies de moluscos gasteropodos (Mollusca: Gastropoda) del Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt, sector Baracoa, Guantanamo, Cuba. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias. 26: 195–223. page(s): 213, pl. 5C

bella Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. ''Bella'' is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, to the name Belle, meaning ''beautiful'' in French. It increased in ...

Gastropods described in 2014 {{Mitromorpha-stub