Bela turgida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

[1] This name of this species is considered a nomen dubium Nordsieck (1977: 45) interpreted Pleurotoma turgida Reeve 1844 as a synonym of the preoccupied Pleurotoma nana Scacchi, 1836.

[2] However, van Aartsen (1988) considered P. turgida as a nomem dubium, despite the fact that Reeve's name (which was based on the same Aegean material of Forbes (1844) and proposed a replacement name Bela menkhorsti [3]

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