Propebela exarata

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

Propebela exarata
Drawing of a shell of Propebela exarata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Propebela
Species:	P. exarata
Binomial name
Propebela exarata (Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
Bela concinnula Verrill, 1882 Bela exarata (Møller, 1842) Bela mitrula (Lovén, S.L., 1846) Canetoma exarata (Møller, 1842) Defrancia exarata Moller, 1842 (original combination) Lora exarata (Møller, 1842) Oenopota exarata (Møller, 1842) Oenopota mitrula (S.L. Lovén, 1846) Pleurotoma exarata Herzenstein, 1885 Tritonia mitrula Lovén, 1846

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.