Bathybela tenelluna

Bathybela tenelluna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Raphitomidae
Genus:	Bathybela
Species:	B. tenelluna
Binomial name
	Bathybela tenelluna; (Locard, 1897)
Synonyms
	Bathybela tenellunum [sic] (incorrect gender ending); Gymnobela tenelluna (Locard, 1897); Gymnobela tenellunum [sic] (incorrect gender ending); Pleurotoma tenellunum Locard, 1897 (original combination); Pleurotomella costlowi Petuch, 1974;

Bathybela tenelluna is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.^[1]

Description

The shell attains a length of 55 mm.

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara, the Azores and North Carolina, USA

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Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155