Propebela turricula

Propebela turricula, common name the turreted conelet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Propebela turricula
Shells of Propebela turricula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Propebela
Species:	P. turricula
Binomial name
Propebela turricula (Montagu, 1803)
Synonyms[1]
Bela turricola [sic] (misspelling) Bela turricula (Montagu, 1803) Bela turricula var. ecostata Norman, 1899 Bela turriculata Locard, 1891 Buccinum minutum Adams, J., 1797 Fusus turricula (Montagu, 1803) Lora turricula (following genus synonymy) Lora turricula (Montagu, 1803) Mangelia turricula (Montagu, 1803) Murex angulatus Donovan, 1804 (dubious synonym) Murex turricula Montagu, 1803 Oenopota turricula (Montagu, 1803) Pleurotoma angulata Donovan, E., 1804 Pleurotoma castanea Brown, C.T., 1827 Pleurotoma turricula (Montagu, 1803) Propebela turricula rosea Mörch, O.A.L., 1871 (nomen nudum) Tritonium turricula (Montagu, 1803) Turbo albus Pennant, T., 1777

Description

The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 18 mm.

The narrow shell is turriculated with acute shoulders and with the ribs strongly projecting above it and then running across to the sutures. The ribs number about sixteen, nearly straight, prominent, crossed by very close, rather fine revolving striae. The aperture is rather narrow. The siphonal canal is narrow and produced.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species has an circumarctic distribution, down to Massachusetts, United States; from the Bering Sea to Washington, United States. Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata of the United Kingdom and in Quaternary of Canada and the United Kingdom.