Propebela exquisita

Propebela exquisita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mangeliidae
Genus:	Propebela
Species:	P. exquisita
Binomial name
Propebela exquisita Bartsch, 1941
Synonyms[1]
Oenopota exquisita Bartsch, 1941 Propebela (Turritoma) exquisita Bartsch, 1914 Propebela venusta Okutani, 1964

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Sea of Japan.

References

1. Propebela exquisita (Bartsch, 1941). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 June 2012.

• P Bartsch. "The Nomenclatorial Status of Certain Northern Turritid Mollusks"; Proceedings of the biological Society of Washington 54, 1-14, 1941
• Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Gotō. Catalogue and bibliography of the marine shell bearing mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. Elle Scientific, 1999.
• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.

External links

• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.