''Nucella'',

common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...

dog whelks or dog winkles, is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory

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 ...

marine Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (disambiguation) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * ...

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 ...

mollusks in the subfamily

Ocenebrinae Ocenebrinae is a taxonomic subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails. In one other version of current gastropod taxon ...

which is part of the large family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species

Species in the genus ''Nucella'' include: * ''

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. S ...

'' (Forbes, 1852) * ''

Nucella angustior ''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. S ...

'' Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019 * † ''

Nucella bermejensis ''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. S ...

'' Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006 * ''

Nucella canaliculata ''Nucella canaliculata'', commonly known as the channeled dog winkle or the channeled purple, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. The shell grows to a maximum length of ...

'' (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle *''

Nucella dubia ''Nucella dubia'', common name the common dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution This marine species occurs off Namibia Namib ...

'' (Krauss, 1848) * ''

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 inter ...

'' (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle *'' Nucella freycinetii'' (Deshayes, 1839) *'' Nucella fuscata'' (Forbes, 1850) *''

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 mure ...

'' (Dunker, 1882) * ''

Nucella lamellosa ''Nucella lamellosa'', commonly known as the frilled dogwinkle or wrinkled purple whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species occurs in the eastern Pacific O ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) - frilled dogwinkle * ''

Nucella lapillus 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 ...

'' ( Linnaeus,

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...

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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 ...

, dog whelk * ''

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 Ocea ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) - file dogwinkle *''

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 ...

'' (Gould, 1852) *''

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 a ...

'' (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984) *''

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 ...

'' (Lamarck, 1816) * ''

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 mu ...

'' (Krauss, 1848) ; Species brought into synonymy : *''Nucella acuminata'' Carcelles, 1954 accepted as ''

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 ...

'' (Bruguière, 1789) * ''Nucella castanea'' (Küster, 1886): synonym of ''

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 ...

'' (Küster, 1886) *''Nucella cingulata'' ( Linnaeus, 1771): synonym of ''

Trochia cingulata ''Trochia cingulata'', common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm D ...

'' ( Linnaeus, 1771) * ''Nucella elongata'' Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of ''Nucella freycinetii'' (Deshayes, 1839) * ''Nucella heyseana'' var. ''elongata'' Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of ''

'' (Dunker, 1882) * ''Nucella lindaniae'' Lorenz, 1991: synonym of ''Nucella wahlbergi'' (Krauss, 1848) * ''Nucella pyramidalis'' (Turton, 1932): synonym of ''Nucella dubia'' (Krauss, 1848) * ''Nucella theobroma'' Roding, 1798: synonym of ''Nucella lapillus'' ( Linnaeus,

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References

* Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32. * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp. * Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213 * Marko P. B. 2004. ‘What's larvae got to do with it?' Disparate patterns of post-glacial population structure in two benthic marine gastropods with identical dispersal potential. Molecular Ecology, 13: 597–611 * Chichvarkhin A.Y. & Chichvarkhina O.V. (2014). Systematics of the western Pacific "giant" dog-whelks referred to Nucella elongata, Nucella heyseana, and Nucella lamellosa (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Mollusks of the eastern Asia and adjacent seas, Abstracts of the conference, Vladivostok, 6-8 October 2014. 11-12

External links

Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.

Kool S.P. & Boss K.J. (1992). Nucella Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae): type species. The Nautilus. 106(1): 21-23

Kool S.P. 1993. The Systematic position of the genus Nucella.(Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae). The Nautilus, 107(2): 43-57

Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.
* Muricidae {{Muricidae-stub