{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Speciesbox | taxon =Bela nuperrima | image = Bela nuperrima 003.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Bela nuperrima'' (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | authority = (Tiberi, 1855) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS" /> | synonyms = * ''Mangelia nuperrima'' <small>(Tiberi, 1855)</small> * ''Pleurotoma decussata'' <small>Philippi, 1844</small> * ''Pleurotoma nuperrimum'' <small>Tiberi, 1855</small> (original combination) * ''Pleurotomella reconditum'' <small>(Locard, 1891)</small> * ''Raphitoma nuperrima'' <small>(Tiberi, 1855)</small> * ''Raphitoma nuperrima'' var. ''corallinoides'' <small>Sturany, 1896</small> * ''Raphitoma nuperrima'' var. ''pseudoacanthodes'' <small>Sturany, 1896</small> * ''Raphitoma peregrinator'' <small>Locard, 1897</small> * ''Raphitoma recondita'' <small>Locard, E.A.A., 1892</small> | display_parents = 3 }}

'''''Bela nuperrima''''' is a species of [[sea snail]], a marine [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]] in the [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] [[Mangeliidae]].<ref name="WoRMS">Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Bela nuperrima (Tiberi, 1855). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=853245 on 2017-03-19</ref>

==Description== The length of the shell varies between 5&nbsp;mm and 14&nbsp;mm.

The rather thin shell shows about twelve distant, small longitudinal riblets, crossed by distant raised lines.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch06tryorich G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences]</ref>

==Distribution== This marine species occurs in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] off [[Senegal]]

Fossils of this marine species were found in [[Pleistocene]] strata in [[Italy]].

==References== {{Reflist}} * Philippi, Moll. Sicil., ii, 174, t. 26, f. 23, 1844 * [https://www.academia.edu/14614146/Molluschi_marini_del_Plio-Pleistocene_dellEmilia-Romagna_e_della_Toscana._Conoidea._Vol._4_-_Mangeliidae_II Della Bella G., Naldi F. & Scarponi D. (2015). ''Molluschi marini del Plio-Pleistocene dell'Emilia-Romagna e della Toscana - Superfamiglia Conoidea, vol. 4, Mangeliidae II''. Lavori della Società Italiana di Malacologia. 26: 1-80]

==External links== {{Commons category}} * [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1-1295.] * {{Gastropods.com|key=7|id=33387|title=''Mangelia nuperrima''|access-date=15 January 2019}} [[File: Bela nuperrima 002.jpg|thumb|left|Shells of ''Bela nuperrima'' (museum specimens at Zoological Museum Amsterdam)]] * [https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2000-3165?listIndex=95&listCount=132 MNHN, Paris: holotype]

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[[Category:Bela (gastropod)|nuperrima]] [[Category:Gastropods described in 1855]]

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