| Bela turgida | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Bela |
| Species: | B. turgida |
| Binomial name | |
| Bela turgida (Reeve, 1844) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Bela turgida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
This name of this species is considered a nomen dubium
Nordsieck (1977: 45) interpreted Pleurotoma turgidaReeve 1844 as a synonym of the preoccupied Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836. [2] However, van Aartsen (1988) considered P. turgida as a nomem dubium, despite the fact that Reeve's name (which was based on the same Aegean material of Forbes (1844) and proposed a replacement name Bela menkhorsti [3]