Ptychobela

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| image_caption = Shell of Ptychobela baynhami (specimen at MNHN, Paris)

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| taxon = Ptychobela

| authority = Thiele, 1925

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| type_species = Clavatula crenularis

| type_species_authority = Lamarck, 1816

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Ptychobela is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.{{WRMS species|205306|Ptychobela Thiele, 1925||15 April 2010}}

Species

Species within the genus Ptychobela include:

Ptychobela baynhami (Smith E. A., 1891){{WRMS species|434814|Ptychobela baynhami (Smith E. A., 1891)||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela dancei Kilburn & Dekker, 2008{{WRMS species|434815|Ptychobela dancei Kilburn & Dekker, 2008||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834){{WRMS species|434816|Ptychobela griffithii (Gray, 1834)||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela lanceolata (Reeve, 1845)
Ptychobela lavinia (Dall, 1919){{WRMS species|434817|Ptychobela lavinia (Dall, 1919)||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela minimarus (Kosuge, 1993)
Ptychobela nodulosa (Gmelin, 1791)
Ptychobela opisthochetos Kilburn, 1989{{WRMS species|434818|Ptychobela opisthochetos Kilburn, 1989||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela resticula Li B. Q., Kilburn & Li X. Z., 2010
Ptychobela salebra Li & Li, 2007{{WRMS species|434819|Ptychobela salebra Li & Li, 2007||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela schoedei Thiele, 1925
Ptychobela sumatrensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852){{WRMS species|434820|Ptychobela sumatrense (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)||15 April 2010}}
Ptychobela superba Thiele, 1925
Ptychobela suturalis (Gray, 1838){{WRMS species|434821|Ptychobela suturalis (Gray, 1838)||15 April 2010}}
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)

Thiele, J. 1925. Gastropoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. II. Teil. pp. in Chun, C. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Damfper "Valdivia" 1898–1899. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 17(2) 348 pp., 34 pls.
Kilburn, R. N., 1989 [November], Notes on Ptychobela and Brachytoma, with the description of a new species from Mozambique (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Turridae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 30: 185–196.

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