Besla
| Besla | |
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| Apertural view of the shell of Besla convexa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Besla Dall & Bartsch, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Odostomia convexa Carpenter, 1857
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Besla is a small
sensu taxonomy by Bouchet & Roctroi, 2005).[1]
Taxonomy
The
teleoconch sculpture may be convergent .[2]
Life habits
Very little is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the
ectoparasites
.
Species
There are more than twenty known species within the genus Besla, these include:
- Besla alphonsi (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla annae (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla arenarum (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla articulata (Hedley, 1909)
- Besla augusti (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla bicinctella (Yokoyama, 1927)
- Besla canaensis (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla convexa (Carpenter, 1857) - type species as: Odostomia (Chrysallida) convexa
- Besla cossmanni (Hornung & Mermod, 1924)
- Besla danieli (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla dheeradiloki (Robba, Di Geronimo, Chaimanee, Negri & Sanfilippo, 2003)
- Besla excolpa (Bartsch, 1912)
- Besla gabriellae (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla gautieri (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla henriettae (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla insularis (Oliver, 1915)
- Besla joae (Saurin, 1961)
- † Besla lawsi (Grant-Mackie & Chapman-Smith, 1971)
- Besla mieuina (Saurin, 1959)
- † Besla otahua (Laws, 1950)
- Besla ranae (Saurin, 1961)
- Besla reamensis (Saurin, 1961)
- Besla revisa (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla rossiana (Laws, 1941)
- Besla subrugata (Powell, 1927)
- Besla tuytrieuensis (Saurin, 1959)
- Besla vaga (Laws, 1941)
- Besla waitangiensis (Laws, 1941)
References
- ^ Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2012). Besla Dall & Bartsch, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=571798 on 2012-08-27
- ^ Micali P., Nofroni I. & Perna E. (2012) Parthenina alesii n. sp. from Eastern Mediterranean, and notes on Parthenina dantarti (Peñas & Rolán in Peñas, Rolán & Ballesteros, 2008) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pyramidellidae). Bollettino Malacologico 48(1): 69-72.
Further reading
- Carpenter, P. P. (1857). Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen. London. pp. 552 pp.