- Source: Bela patagonica
Bela patagonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
The variety Spirotropis patagonica magellanica (Martens, E.C. von, 1881) was originally described as Drillia patagonica Martens, E.C. von, 1881 with a length half as long.
Description
The shell size varies between 6 mm and 15 mm.
The shell is yellowish brown. The first whorls are globose, the third and following ones subangulated, with longitudinal short, fine ribs and close revolving striae. The ribs are obsolete on the body whorl. The sinus is broad and shallow.
Distribution
This species occurs in the demersal zone of the Atlantic Ocean from Southern Brazil to Patagonia
Fossils have been found in Quaternary strata in Brazil.
References
Sánchez, N. & Pastorino, G. (2022). New taxonomic position and neotype designation for the conoidean gastropod Pleurotoma patagonica d'Orbigny, 1841. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 151(1): 67-74
External links
Media related to Bela patagonica at Wikimedia Commons
"Spirotropis patagonica". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates