Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Mesoneura > Superfamily Murchisonelloidea > Family Murchisonellidae > Subfamily Ebalinae > Genus Ebala

Ebala nitidissima (Montagu, 1803)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Turbo Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ebala*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Eulimella nitidissima*	(Montagu, 1803)	synonym
*Eulimella striata*	de Folin, 1870	synonym
*Odostomia nitidissima*	(Montagu, 1803)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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.
additional source	Landau, B.M. & Micali, P. (2021). The Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 13: Murchisonelloidea and Pyramidelloidea. Cainozoic Research. 21(2): 201-393.
additional source	Ilyina L.B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS. 255: 1-151.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ebala nitidissima (Montagu, 1803). 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:139664