Propebela harpularia

Propebela harpularia
Image of a shell of Propebela harpularia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Propebela
Species:	P. harpularia
Binomial name
Propebela harpularia (Couthouy, 1838)
Synonyms [1]
Fusus harpulariusCouthouy, 1838 (original combination) Bela harpularia(Couthouy, 1838) Oenopota harpularia(Couthouy, 1838) Oenopota harpularius(Couthouy, 1838) Pleurotoma harpulariaHerzenstein, 1885 Tritonium roseumLovén, S.L., 1846

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

The taxonomy is this species is uncertain. Relying on Tucker, the website |Gastropods.com states this species as Oenopota harpularius(Couthouy, J.P., 1838), ^[2] while WoRMS states Oenopota harpularius as a synonym of Propebela harpularia(Couthouy, 1838) ^[3]

Description

The characters of this species are very variable. Usually, the ribs are 14–16 in number, but some specimens have as many as 20. The colour is always red, or brownish. The interspaces between the ribs, round the angulated part of the body whorl, are concavely excavated. There transverse sculpture appears without being interrupted by the carina. ^[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in arctic and boreal seas.

References

1. Propebela harpularia (Couthouy, 1838) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 29 March 2010.
2. Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295
3. Gofas, S. (2008). Propebela harpularia. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160451 on 13 November 2017
4. 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 .

• Harmer, F. W. (1915). The Pliocene Mollusca of Great Britain being supplementary to SV Wood's Monograph of the Crag.
• Couthouy, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. 1838, Pag. 106, Pl. 1, Fig. 10.
• Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
• Bogdanov, I. P. Mollusks of Oenopotinae subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Nauka, 1990.

External links

• "Oenopota harpularius". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Nekhaev, Ivan O. "Marine shell-bearing Gastropoda of Murman (Barents Sea): an annotated check-list." Ruthenica 24.2 (2014): 75