Propebela rugulata

Propebela rugulata (common name : Gould's northern turrid) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Propebela rugulata
Shells of Propebela rugulata (holotype of the synonym Bela gouldii at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Propebela
Species:	P. rugulata
Binomial name
Propebela rugulata (Møller in Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Bela gouldii Verrill, 1882 Bela rugulata (Reeve, 1846) Bela rugulata var. clathrata Friele, 1886 Bela subarctica Derjugin, 1924 Oenopota rugulata (Reeve, 1846) Oenopota rugulatus [sic] (incorrect gender ending) Pleurotoma rugulatus Reeve, 1846 (original combination) Pleurotoma ulidiana Thompson W., 1845 Propebela gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882

Description

The whorls are angulated; the axial ribs straight, and not sigmoid. The length of the aperture is about the same as that of the spire. The angulated part of the ultimate whorl is sharp. The apex has a somewhat flattened protoconch. The first whorl has two prominent spiral ribs. The teeth of the radula vary, from broad-coniform to elongate-coniform[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Greenland to Massachusetts, USA. Fossils have been found in Quaternary strata of Iceland, age range: 2.588 to 0.012 Ma

References

1. Propebela rugulata (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 11 September 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.

• Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
• Abbott R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls
• 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.

External links

• Verrill A. E. (1882). Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region, during the past ten years. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 5(2): 447-587 pl. 57-58
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
• Vermeij, Geerat J. "From Europe to America: Pliocene to recent trans-Atlantic expansion of cold-water North Atlantic molluscs." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 272.1580 (2005): 2545–2550.
• Nekhaev, Ivan O., and Ekaterina N. Krol. "Diversity of shell-bearing gastropods along the western coast of the Arctic archipelago Novaya Zemlya: an evaluation of modern and historical data." Polar Biology 40.11 (2017): 2279–2289.
• Nekhaev, Ivan O. "Marine shell-bearing Gastropoda of Murman (Barents Sea): an annotated check-list." Ruthenica 24.2 (2014): 75