Bellastraea

Bellastraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.^[1]

Bellastraea
Bellastraea squamifera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Bellastraea Iredale, 1924
Type species
Bellastraea kesteveni Iredale, 1924
Synonyms[1]
Micrastraea Cotton, 1939

The Australian Faunal Directory considers this genus as a synonym of Astralium Link, 1807 ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Bellastraea include:

• Bellastraea aurea (Jonas, 1844)^[3]
• Bellastraea rutidoloma (Tate, 1893)^[4]
• Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)

Species brought into synonymy

• Astraea kesteveni T. Iredale, 1924: synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
• Bellastraea kesteveni (Iredale, 1924):^[5] synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
• Bellastraea urvillei Philippi, R.A., 1852: synonym of Astralium tentoriiforme (Jonas, J.H., 1845)