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

Mesalia mesal (Deshayes, 1843)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Turritella Lamarck, 1799

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesalia*	Gray, 1847	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Mesalia varia*	(Kiener, 1843)	synonym
*Mesalia varia var. imbricata*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Mesalia varia var. plicata*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Turritella varia*	Kiener, 1843	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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	Reeve, L. A. (1849). Monograph of the genus Turritella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 5, pl. 1-11 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-8: May, 1849; 9-11: June 1849].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mesalia mesal (Deshayes, 1843). 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:437240