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Nucella Analoga
''Nucella'', common name dog whelks or dog winkles, is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae which is part of the large family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Species Species in the genus ''Nucella'' include: * ''Nucella analoga'' (Forbes, 1852) * ''Nucella angustior'' Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019 * † ''Nucella bermejensis'' Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006 * ''Nucella canaliculata'' (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle *'' Nucella dubia'' (Krauss, 1848) * ''Nucella emarginata'' (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle *'' Nucella freycinetii'' (Deshayes, 1839) *'' Nucella fuscata'' (Forbes, 1850) *''Nucella heyseana'' (Dunker, 1882) * ''Nucella lamellosa'' (Gmelin, 1791) - frilled dogwinkle * ''Nucella lapillus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic dogwinkle, dog whelk * ''Nucella lima'' (Gmelin, 1791) - file dogwinkle *''Nucella ostrina'' (Gould, 1852) *''Nucella rolani'' (Bogi & Nofroni, 19 ...
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Nucella Emarginata
''Nucella emarginata'', common name the emarginate dogwinkle, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description ''N. emarginata'' is a rocky intertidal gastropod carnivore that feeds on a variety of sessile and sedentary species such as barnacles, mussels, and limpets. The adult shell size of this species can reach 25 mm or 30 mm. Feeding ''N. emarginata'' attacks prey by drilling. It has a special organ called the accessory boring organ, or ABO, that contains acid which it uses to dissolve a small hole in the shell of its prey.Gruber, G.L., Carriker, M.R., 1990. A note on the accessory boring organ and shell boring by the "Loco", ''Concholepas concholepas'' (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Bulletin of Marine Science 47, 739–744. Carriker, M.R., Gruber, G.L., 1999. Uniqueness of the Gastropod Accessory Boring Organ (ABO) Comparative Biology, an Update. Journal of Shellfish Rese ...
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Nucella Heyseana
''Nucella heyseana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neoga ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution References External links * Muricidae Gastropods described in 1882 {{Muricidae-stub ...
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Orania Castanea
''Orania castanea'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Orania castanea'' (Küster, 1886). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716644 on 2019-01-06Claremont M., Houart R., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the Ergalataxinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 79(1): 19-29. Distribution This marine species occurs off South Africa, from False Bay to the south coast of Natal, and Walters Shoals The Walters Shoals is a group of submerged mountains off the coast of Madagascar. The shoals are south of Cape Sainte Marie - Madagascar and east of Richards Bay at the Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most po ..., south of Madagascar. References * Turton W.H. (1932). Marine Shells of Port Alfred, S. Africa. Humphrey M ...
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Acanthina Unicornis
''Acanthina unicornis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neoga ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution References Muricidae Gastropods described in 1789 {{Muricidae-stub ...
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Nucella Wahlbergi
''Nucella wahlbergi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neoga ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution References Muricidae Gastropods described in 1848 Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss {{Muricidae-stub ...
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Nucella Squamosa
''Nucella squamosa'', common name the scaly dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The scaly dogwhelk is a small brown whelk with many fine knobbly spiral ridges on its shell. It grows up to 5 cm in total length. The ridges of the snail's shell are not often visible because the whelk is usually overgrown by the high-spined commensal hydroid, ''Hydtractinia altispina'', which looks prickly and is orange.Branch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. 2010. ''Two Oceans: a guide to the marine life of southern Africa''. . Distribution This marine snail is found off the southern African coast from central Namibia to Port St Johns, subtidally to 50m under water. Ecology The eggs are laid in small groups of capsules which resemble stalked clubs. The commensal Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits w ...
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Nucella Rolani
''Nucella rolani'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The shell size is up to 24 mm Distribution This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Portugal and Northwest Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i .... References External links * Muricidae Gastropods described in 1984 {{Muricidae-stub ...
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Nucella Ostrina
''Nucella ostrina'', the northern striped dogwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Other common names for this mollusk include emarginate dogwinkle, short-spired purple dogwinkle, striped dogwinkle, ribbed dogwinkle, emarginate whelk, ribbed rock whelk, rock thais, short-spired purple snail and rock whelk. Description This dogwinkle has a robust shell with three indistinct whorls. It can be in length, but a more typical length is or less; the aperture is less than half the diameter of the shell and can be closed by a brown, horny operculum. The exterior of the shell is spirally ridged, often with heavy ridges alternating with more delicate ones. The heavy ridges may bear coarse nodules, but in more exposed locations these, and the ridges themselves, may be partially smoothed. The ridges tend to be pale in color and the furrows between them dark, typically brown, gray, black, orange or yellow. T ...
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Nucella Lima
''Nucella lima'', common name : the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Distribution This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to Baja California, Mexico; and along Northern Japan. Description The shell size varies between 19 mm and 51 mm. References External links

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Dog Whelk
The dog whelk, dogwhelk, or Atlantic dogwinkle (''Nucella lapillus'') is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. ''Nucella lapillus'' was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' as ''Buccinum lapillus'' (the basionym). "Dog whelk" can also refer to the Nassariidae. Distribution This species is found around the coasts of Europe and in the northern west Atlantic coast of North America. It also can be found in estuarine waters along the Atlantic coasts. This species prefers rocky shores, where it eats mussels and acorn barnacles.Colin Little, J. A. Kitching, 1996''The Biology of Rocky Shores'' pp. 140-145. Shell description The dog whelk shell is small and rounded with a pointed spire and a short, straight siphonal canal (a groove on the underside of the shell) and a deep anal canal. The overall shell shape varies quite widely according to the degree of ex ...
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Atlantic Dogwinkle
The dog whelk, dogwhelk, or Atlantic dogwinkle (''Nucella lapillus'') is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. ''Nucella lapillus'' was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' as ''Buccinum lapillus'' (the basionym). "Dog whelk" can also refer to the Nassariidae. Distribution This species is found around the coasts of Europe and in the northern west Atlantic coast of North America. It also can be found in estuarine waters along the Atlantic coasts. This species prefers rocky shores, where it eats mussels and acorn barnacles.Colin Little, J. A. Kitching, 1996''The Biology of Rocky Shores'' pp. 140-145. Shell description The dog whelk shell is small and rounded with a pointed spire and a short, straight siphonal canal (a groove on the underside of the shell) and a deep anal canal. The overall shell shape varies quite widely according to the degre ...
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10th Edition Of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature. In it, Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature for animals, something he had already done for plants in his 1753 publication of '' Species Plantarum''. Starting point Before 1758, most biological catalogues had used polynomial names for the taxa included, including earlier editions of ''Systema Naturae''. The first work to consistently apply binomial nomenclature across the animal kingdom was the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature therefore chose 1 January 1758 as the "starting point" for zoological nomenclature, and asserted that the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' was to be treated as if published on that date. Names published before that date are unavailable, even if they would otherwise satisfy the rules. The only ...
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