Bela turgida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
This name of this species is considered a nomen dubium
Nomenclature Nordsieck (1977: 45) interpreted Pleurotoma turgida Reeve 1844 as a synonym of the preoccupied Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836.Nordsieck F 1977 The Turridae of the European Seas. La Conchiglia, Roma. 131 pp. 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 Van Aartsen JJ. 1988a. European Mollusca: notes on less well-known species. XII. Bela menkhorsti nom. nov. = Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836 not Deshayes, 1835 and Fehria (nov. gen.) zenetouae nov. spec. La Conchiglia 20 (232–233): 30–31
References
van Aartsen J. J. (1988). Nomenclatural notes 7. Forbes' Aegean Turridae. Bollettino Malacologico 24 (5-8): 141-144 Mariottini P., Smriglio C., Di Giulio A. & Oliverio M. (2009). "A new fossil conoidean from the Pliocene of Italy, with comments on the Bela menkhorsti complex (Gastropoda: Conidae)". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 5-14
External links Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295. Biolib.cz: image