“Genus Lorabela n.g.
Type : Bela pelseneri Strebel
Bartsch (1941) reviewed the Boreal Turrids of the groups previously ascribed to Bela, Lora, Oenopota and Propebela and proposed ten new genera and subgenera. He explained, as I did, independently (Powell, 1942, pp. 9, 12 and 16), that Bela Gray, 1847, applies to the Mangeliinae and Lora Gistel, 1848, was proposed as a n.nom. for the preoccupied Defrancia Millet, 1826 =Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831, an Italian Miocene member of the Mangeliinae. The available names for the 'Bela' auct. shells are thus restricted to Oenopota Moerch, 1852, Propebela Iredale, 1918, and the ten new propositions of Bartsch.
A group of Antarctic shells, typified by the South Georgian Bela pelseneri, resembles the boreal Propebela in build and adult sculptural plan of strong axials crossed by regular spiral cords, but has a smooth, paucispiral protoconch and a deep rounded anal sinus occupying the shoulder.
The protoconch in Propebela has a smooth initial whorl followed by one bearing spiral threads and finally a brephic stage with the spirals crossed by weak, closely spaced axial riblets. The anal sinus is so shallow that it is scarcely apparent.
The genotype of Lorabela has a vestigial, thin, oval operculum with a terminal nucleus and radula very similar to that of Propebela turricula, which consists of bundles of slender, twisted rods.”
(Powell, 1951: 171)
Lorabela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.[1]
Species within the genus Lorabela include:
Lorabela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
