Propebela scalaroides

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

Propebela scalaroides
Original image of a shell of Propebela scalaroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. scalaroides
Binomial name
Propebela scalaroides
(Sars G. O., 1878)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela scalaroides Sars G. O., 1878
  • Oenopota scalaroides (Sars G.O., 1878)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 22 mm and 27 mm.

The small, white shell has an elongate-fusiform shape. The shell contains 7 slightly convex whorls. The spire is longer than the aperture. The shell is longitudinally plicate with about 20 ribs. The sharp apex resembles Propebela rugulata, and the same is the case with the operculum . The teeth of the radula have the broad typical form.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Eastern Greenland and off Nova Zembla.

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References
  1. Propebela scalaroides (Sars G. O., 1878). 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.
  • 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
  • Sars, G.O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1–34 & I-XVIII
  • Dyntaxa. (2013). Swedish Taxonomic Database
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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