Propebela fidicula

Propebela fidicula
Drawing of a shell of Propebela fidicula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Caenogastropoda
Clade:Hypsogastropoda
Clade:Neogastropoda
Superfamily:Conoidea
Family:Mangeliidae
Genus:Propebela
Species: P. fidicula
Binomial name
Propebela fidicula
(A.A. Gould, 1849)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bela fidicula (Gould, 1849)
  • Fusus fidicula Gould, 1849 (original combination)
  • Lora fidicula (Gould, 1849)
  • Oenopota fidicula (Gould, 1849)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 11.5 mm

The dirty white shell contains 7 broadly shouldered whorls. These show; about twenty-four longitudinal plications, crossed and decussated by more crowded delicate revolving lines.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska to the Salish Sea and the Puget Sound.

References

  1. 1 2 Propebela fidicula (Gould, 1849).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 March 2010.
  2. ↑ 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.
  • A.A. Gould (1849), Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, p. 141
  • Bogdanov, IP. "New Species of Gastropods of the genus Oenopotina (Gastropoda, Turridae) from the Far-East Seas of the USSR." Zoologichesky Zhurnal 64.3 (1985): 448-453.

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