Bela Zonata
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''Bela zonata'' is a species of
sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
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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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Description

The length of the shell attains 7 mm. The shell is elongated, with the ribs not so prominent, and sometimes nearly obsolete, the revolving striae faint.G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences
(described as ''Drillia nebula'' var. ''laevigata'')


Distribution

This species occurs in the
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and in the Eastern
Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the ...
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References


External links

* Backeljau, T. (1986). ''Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België
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'. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp * Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). ''The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas''. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213 * Muller, Y. (2004). ''Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. oastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory'. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
Urra J. & Gofas S. (2009)'' New records of ''Bela powisiana'' (Dautzenberg, 1887) (Gastropoda: Conidae) in southern Europe''. Journal of Conchology 40(1): 1–4

Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295

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Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean Molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea Gastropods described in 1892 {{Mangeliidae-stub