Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Conoidea > Family Mangeliidae

Bela Leach, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Fehria*	van Aartsen, 1988	synonym
*Ginnania*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Ichnusa*	Jeffreys, 1847	synonym
*Mangelia (Bela)*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Pleurotoma (Bela)*	Leach, 1847	synonym
*Raphitoma (Ginnania)*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym

Children

Bela atlantidea (Knudsen, 1952)
Bela beatriceae (Mariottini, 2007)
Bela cycladensis (Reeve, 1845)
Bela decussata (Locard, 1891)
Bela fuscata (Deshayes, 1835)
Bela ginnania (Risso, 1826)
Bela menkhorsti van Aartsen, 1988
Bela minoica Bogi, Giannuzzi Savelli & Pusateri, 2021
Bela minuta (Reeve, 1844)
Bela nebula (Montagu, 1803)
Bela oceanica (Locard, 1891)
Bela plicatilis (Risso, 1826)
Bela powisiana (Dautzenberg, 1887)
Bela spalatina Prkić & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2022
Bela taprurensis (Pallary, 1904)
Bela zenetouae (van Aartsen, 1988)
Bela zonata (Locard, 1891)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847].
additional source	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bela Leach, 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:137807