Propebela cancellata

Propebela cancellata
Shell of Propebela cancellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade: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 shouldere. 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

  1. 1 2 Oenopota cancellata (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 August 2011.
  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.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, vol. VI; Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • 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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