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Ptychobela

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Ptychobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderNeogastropoda
  5. FamilyPseudomelatomidae
Habitatmarine

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Specimen records
189
With media
29
Family
Pseudomelatomidae
Collections
DMNH, USNM, SBMNH, INHS, WAM
Recorded in
Philippines, Australia, India, Japan, Taiwan

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Ptychobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

==Species== Species within the genus Ptychobela include: Ptychobela baynhami (Smith E. A., 1891) Ptychobela dancei Kilburn & Dekker, 2008 Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834) Ptychobela lanceolata (Reeve, 1845) Ptychobela lavinia (Dall, 1919) Ptychobela minimarus (Kosuge, 1993) Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791) Ptychobela opisthochetos Kilburn, 1989 Ptychobela resticula Li B. Q., Kilburn & Li X. Z., 2010 Ptychobela salebra Li & Li, 2007 Ptychobela schoedei Thiele, 1925 Ptychobela sumatrensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852) Ptychobela superba Thiele, 1925 Ptychobela suturalis (Gray, 1838) Ptychobela vexillium (Habe & Kosuge, 1966) Ptychobela zebra Chang, C.K. & W.L. Wu, 2000 Species brought into synonymy: Ptychobela crenularis (Lamarck, 1816): synonym of Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791) Ptychobela flavidula (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822) Ptychobela kawamurai (Habe, T. & S. Kosuge, 1966): synonym of Cheungbeia kawamurai (Habe, T. & S. Kosuge, 1966) Ptychobela pseudoprincipalis Yokoyama, 1920 : synonym of Inquisitor pseudoprincipalis (Yokoyama, 1920) Ptychobela subochracea Springsteen and Leobrera 1986: synonym of Aguilaria subochracea (Smith, 1877) Ptychobela takeokaensis (Otuka, 1949): synonym of Crassispira takeokensis (Otuka, 1949)

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