Propebela cancellata
Shell of Propebela cancellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Propebela
Species:
P. cancellata
Binomial name
Propebela cancellata
(Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela cancellata (Mighels & Adams, 1842)
  • Bela cancellata canadensis (Mighels & Adams, 1842)
  • Fusus cancellatus Mighels & Adams, 1842 (original combination)
  • Lora cancellata (Mighels & Adams, 1842)
  • Oenopota cancellata (Mighels & Adams, 1842)

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

Description

The shell has its axial ribs curved sigmoidally. The part between the suture and the ridge is devoid of spiral sculpture. The teeth of the radula are ensiform.[2]

The shell contains nine whorls, somewhat convex, narrowly obtusely shoulders. The ribs are strong, flexuous, with a sigmoid curve at the shoulder. They are crossed by coarse spiral cinguli. The color of the shell is white, stained rosy or light chestnut, or yellowish.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine.

References

  • Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 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.
  • Mighels J.W. & Adams C.B. (1842). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of New England shells. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4: 37–54, pl. 4
  • Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261–324
  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
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