Besla

Taxobox
name = "Besla"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
ordo = Heterostropha
superfamilia = Pyramidelloidea
familia = Pyramidellidae
subfamilia = Chrysallidinae
genus = "Besla"
genus_authority = Dall & Bartsch, 1904
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Besla" is a small genus of very small sea snails, pyramidellid gastropod mollusks. This genus is currently placed in the the subfamily Chrysallidinae, of the family Odostomiidae.

Life habits

Nothing is known about the biology of the members of this genus. As is true of most members of the Pyramidellidae "sensu lato", they are most likely to be ectoparasites.

pecies within the genus "Besla"

* "Besla convexa" (Carpenter, 1857) (Type species) (as" Odostomia (Chrysallida) convexa")
* "Besla articulata" (Hedley, 1909)
* "Besla cossmanni" Hornung & Mermod, 1924
* "Besla dheeradiloki" Robba, Di Geronimo, Chaimanee, Negri & Sanfilippo, 2003
* "Besla insularis" (Oliver, 1915)
* "Besla joae" (Saurin, 1961)
* "Besla ranae" (Saurin, 1961)
* "Besla reamensis" (Saurin, 1961)
* "Besla rossiana" Laws, 1941
* "Besla subrugata" (Powell, 1927)
* "Besla vaga" Laws, 1941
* "Besla waitangiensis" Laws, 1941
* ...

References

*cite book
last = Carpenter
first = P. P.
title = Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells in the British Museum collected by Frederik Reigen
publisher = London
date = 1857
pages = 552 pp
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isbn =
* cite journal
author = Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P.
year = 1904
date=
title = Synopsis of the genera, subgenera and sections of the family Pyramidellidae.
journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
volume = 17
issue =
pages = 1–16
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doi =