Propebela spitzbergensis

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

Propebela spitzbergensis
Original image of a shell of Propebela spitzbergensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. spitzbergensis
Binomial name
Propebela spitzbergensis
(Friele, 1886)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela spitzbergensis Friele, 1886
  • Bela rugulata var. spitzbergensis Friele, 1886 (original combination)
  • Oenopota spitzbergensis (Friele, 1886)
  • Propebela rugulata spitzbergensis (Friele, 1886)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 20 mm.

(Original description) The characteristics of this species are close to Propebela rugulata; the relations between the spire and the aperture,are typical. This species differs, in its sculpture, in having a more projectant angle, which may occasionally pass into a sharp protuberant edge and in a somewhat more marked spiral striation. The operculum appears to be somewhat broader than the typical one. The teeth of the radula have a peculiar recessment upon the one side; the form, otherwise, is the broad typical one. Out of 6 specimens examined, all showed the same uniform structure.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Spitzbergen.

References
  1. Propebela spitzbergensis (Friele, 1886). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. 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.
  • Bogdanov, I. P. Mollusks of Oenopotinae subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Nauka, 1990.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
  • 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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