Ptychobela

Ptychobela
Shell of Ptychobela baynhami (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Ptychobela Thiele, 1925
Type species
Clavatula crenularis Lamarck, 1816
Species
See text

Ptychobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Ptychobela include:

• Ptychobela baynhami (Smith E. A., 1891)[2]
• Ptychobela dancei Kilburn & Dekker, 2008[3]
• Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834)[4]
• Ptychobela lanceolata (Reeve, 1845)
• Ptychobela lavinia (Dall, 1919)[5]
• Ptychobela minimarus (Kosuge, 1993)
• Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791)
• Ptychobela opisthochetos Kilburn, 1989[6]
• Ptychobela resticula Li B. Q., Kilburn & Li X. Z., 2010
• Ptychobela salebra Li & Li, 2007[7]
• Ptychobela schoedei Thiele, 1925
• Ptychobela sumatrensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)[8]
• Ptychobela superba Thiele, 1925
• Ptychobela suturalis (Gray, 1838)[9]
• Ptychobela vexillium (Habe & Kosuge, 1966)
• Ptychobela zebra Chang, C.K. & W.L. Wu, 2000

Species brought into synonymy

• Ptychobela crenularis (Lamarck, 1816): synonym of Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791)
• Ptychobela flavidula (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
• Ptychobela kawamurai (Habe, T. & S. Kosuge, 1966): synonym of Cheungbeia kawamurai (Habe, T. & S. Kosuge, 1966)
• Ptychobela pseudoprincipalis Yokoyama, 1920 : synonym of Inquisitor pseudoprincipalis (Yokoyama, 1920)
• Ptychobela subochracea Springsteen and Leobrera 1986: synonym of Aguilaria subochracea (Smith, 1877)
• Ptychobela takeokaensis (Otuka, 1949): synonym of Crassispira takeokensis (Otuka, 1949)

References

1. Ptychobela Thiele, 1925. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
2. Ptychobela baynhami (Smith E. A., 1891). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
3. Ptychobela dancei Kilburn & Dekker, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
4. Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
5. Ptychobela lavinia (Dall, 1919). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
6. Ptychobela opisthochetos Kilburn, 1989. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
7. Ptychobela salebra Li & Li, 2007. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
8. Ptychobela sumatrense (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
9. Ptychobela suturalis (Gray, 1838). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.

• Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. II. Teil. pp. in Chun, C. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Damfper "Valdivia" 1898–1899. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 17(2) 348 pp., 34 pls.
• Kilburn, R. N., 1989 [November], Notes on Ptychobela and Brachytoma, with the description of a new species from Mozambique (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 30: 185–196.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae