''Propebela luetkeana'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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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. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

.Bouchet, P. (2016). Propebela luetkeana (Krause, 1885). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=869958 on 2017-12-26

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...

References

* Krause, A. (1885). Ein Beitrag zur kenntnis der Molluskenfauna des Beringsmeres. II. Gastropods und Pteropoda. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 51(1): 256–302, pls 16–18.
Merkuljev A.V. (2015). The Bering Sea prosobranchiate gastropod species described by A. Krause in 1885 [in Russian]. Ruthenica. 25(4): 133-137

External links

* luetkeana Gastropods described in 1885 {{Mangeliidae-stub