Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Cerithioidea > Family Turritellidae > Subfamily Pareorinae

Mesalia Gray, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Mesalia brevialis (Lamarck, 1822)
Mesalia mesal (Deshayes, 1843)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847].
additional source	Marche-Marchad, I. (1960). Les Turritellidae de l'Afrique Occidentale (Gastropodes Prosobranches marins). Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire sér. A. 22(3): 855-884, 3 pl.
additional source	Marche-Marchad, I. (1981). Notes sur des representants du genre Mesalia Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda, Turritellidae) trouvés dans la Méditerranée. Bollettino Malacologico. 17 (3-4): 41-48.
additional source	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
taxonomy source	Squires, R. L. & Saul, L. R. (2007). Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. The Nautilus. 121(1):1-16.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mesalia Gray, 1847. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138613