Propebela exarata

Propebela exarata
Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
  • 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.

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.

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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