Biology:Propebela exarata

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Propebela exarata
Propebela exarata 001.jpg
Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. exarata
Binomial name
Propebela exarata
(Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela concinnula Verrill, 1882
  • Bela exarata (Møller, 1842)
  • Bela mitrula (Lovén, S.L., 1846)
  • Canetoma exarata (Møller, 1842)
  • Defrancia exarata Moller, 1842 (original combination)
  • Lora exarata (Møller, 1842)
  • Oenopota exarata (Møller, 1842)
  • Oenopota mitrula (S.L. Lovén, 1846)
  • Pleurotoma exarata Herzenstein, 1885
  • Tritonia mitrula Lovén, 1846

Propebela exarata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The white shell has an ovate-fusiform shape and is clathrate. It contains 6 whorls. The longitudinal ribs are eminently pronounced and are crossed by transverse plicae.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Massachusetts , USA, Greenland, the Lofoten Islands and Nova Zembla, in the Kara Sea and the Arctic shores of Siberia; Arctic Ocean to Monterey, California

Fossils have been found in Greenland, Labrador, England and Spitsbergen.

References

  • Bogdanov, I. P. Mollusks of Oenopotinae subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Nauka, 1990.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3170580 entry