Propebela exarata

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Propebela exarata
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Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
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]

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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.

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