''Propebela harpularia'' is a species of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Mangeliidae
Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
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.
The taxonomy is this species is uncertain. Relying on Tucker, the websit
, Gastropods.com states this species as ''Oenopota harpularius''
(Couthouy, J.P., 1838), while
WoRMS Worms may refer to:
*Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs
Places
*Worms, Germany
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states ''Oenopota harpularius'' as a synonym of ''Propebela harpularia''
(Couthouy, 1838)
Description
The characters of this species are very variable. Usually, the ribs are 14–16 in number, but some specimens have as many as 20. The colour is always red, or brownish. The interspaces between the ribs, round the angulated part of the
body whorl, are concavely excavated. There transverse
sculpture
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appears without being interrupted by the carina.
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.
Distribution
This species occurs in arctic and boreal seas.
References
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* Couthouy, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. 1838, Pag. 106, Pl. 1, Fig. 10.
* Brunel, P.; Bosse, L.; Lamarche, G. (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.
* Bogdanov, I. P. Mollusks of Oenopotinae subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) in the seas of the USSR. Nauka, 1990.
External links
*
Tucker, J.K. 2004 ''Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)''. Zootaxa 682:1–1295.
Nekhaev, Ivan O. "Marine shell-bearing Gastropoda of Murman (Barents Sea): an annotated check-list." Ruthenica 24.2 (2014): 75
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Gastropods described in 1838