Propebela exarata

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon =Propebela exarata

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| image_caption = Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata

| authority = (Møller, 1842)

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  • 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

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Propebela exarata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.{{WRMS species|160455|Propebela exarata (Møller, 1842)||29 March 2010}}

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.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19563#page/84/mode/1up Möller, Hans Peter Christian. Index molluscorum groenlandiæ. CA Reitzell, 1842]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Massachusetts, USA, Greenland, the Lofoten Islands and Nova Zembla, in the Kara Sea and the Arctic shores of Siberia; Arctic Ocean to Monterey, California

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

References

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