Propebela exarata

Propebela exarata
Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata
Scientific classification
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 concinnulaVerrill, 1882 Bela exarata(Møller, 1842) Bela mitrula(Lovén, S.L., 1846) Canetoma exarata(Møller, 1842) Defrancia exarataMoller, 1842 (original combination) Lora exarata(Møller, 1842) Oenopota exarata(Møller, 1842) Oenopota mitrula(S.L. Lovén, 1846) Pleurotoma exarataHerzenstein, 1885 Tritonia mitrulaLovén, 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, United States, Greenland, the Lofoten Islands and Nova Zembla, in the Kara Sea and the Arctic shores of Siberia; Arctic Ocean to Monterey, California, United States.

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

References

1. Propebela exarata (Møller, 1842) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 March 2010.
2. Möller, Hans Peter Christian. Index molluscorum groenlandiæ. CA Reitzell, 1842

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

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Friele H., 1877: Preliminary report on the Mollusca from the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition in 1876; Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 23: 1–10, 1 pl. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
• Dall, William Healey. Summary of the marine shellbearing mollusks of the northwest coast of America: from San Diego, California, to the Polar Sea, mostly contained in the collection of the United States National Museum, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. No. 112. Govt. print. off., 1921 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
• Nekhaev, Ivan O. "Marine shell-bearing Gastropoda of Murman (Barents Sea): an annotated check-list." Ruthenica 24.2 (2014): 75