Propebela tayensis

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

Propebela tayensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. tayensis
Binomial name
Propebela tayensis
(Nomura, S. & K.N. Hatai, 1938)
Synonyms
  • Canetoma tayensis (Nomura, S. & K.N. Hatai, 1938)
  • Oenopota tayensis (Nomura, S. & K.N. Hatai, 1938)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Japan Sea at a depth of 150 m; fossil records were also found.

References
  1. Kazutaka Amano and Mikiko Watanabe, Taxonomy and distribution of Plio-Pleistocene Buccinum (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in northeast Japan; Paleontological Research, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 215 226, September 28, 2001; Palaeontological Society of Japan

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