Propebela arctica

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

Propebela arctica
Shell of Propebela arctica (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. arctica
Binomial name
Propebela arctica
(Adams, 1855)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela arctica A. Adams, 1855 (original combination)
  • Canetoma viridula (Møller, H.P.C., 1842)
  • Oenopota arctica (Adams, 1855)
  • Oenopota viridula (Møller, 1842)
  • Propebela viridula sensu (Møller, 1842)

Description

The length of the whitish, ovate-fusiform shell varies between 7.5 mm and 13 mm. The aperture and the spire have about the same length. The shell contains five whorls. These are longitudinally eroded with angulated and nodulose plicae and transversely by obscure grooves. The body whorl is swollen. The aperture is ovate. The thin, outer lip is expanded. The siphonal canal is short.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Barents Sea, the Sea of Japan and in the Bering Strait.

References
  1. Propebela arctica (Adams, 1855). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. Adams A. (1855). Description of two new genera and several new species of Mollusca, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 23: 119–124
  • Bogdanov I. (1990). Mollusks of Oenopotinae Subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Leningrad 221 p
  • Merkuljev A.V. (2017). Taxonomic puzzle of Propebela arctica (A. Adams, 1855) (Gastropoda, Mangeliidae) - six different species under single name. Ruthenica. 27(1): 15–30
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  • Nekhaev, Ivan O. "Marine shell-bearing Gastropoda of Murman (Barents Sea): an annotated check-list." Ruthenica 24.2 (2014): 75
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