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Propebela exarata

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm.

The white shell has an ovate-fusiform shape and is clathrate. It contains 6 whorls. The longitudinal ribs are eminently pronounced and are crossed by transverse plicae.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Massachusetts, USA, Greenland, the Lofoten Islands and Nova Zembla, in the Kara Sea and the Arctic shores of Siberia; Arctic Ocean to Monterey, California

Fossils have been found in Greenland, Labrador, England and Spitsbergen.

References

  • Bogdanov, I. P. Mollusks of Oenopotinae subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Nauka, 1990.

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Propebela exarata: Brief Summary

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Propebela exarata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

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Distribution

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Greenland to off Martha's vineyard, Massachusetts

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North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Habitat

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infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary

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