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