Nucella canaliculata

Nucella canaliculata
Nucella caniculata surrounded by thatched barnacles (Semibalanus cariosus), and pile worms (Nereis vexillosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Nucella
Species:	N. canaliculata
Binomial name
Nucella canaliculata (Duclos, 1832)
Synonyms[1]
Purpura analoga Forbes, 1852 Purpura canaliculata Duclos, 1832 Purpura decemcostata Middendorff, 1849 Thais canaliculata var. compressa Dall, 1915

Nucella canaliculata, common name : the Channelled Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 25 mm and 53 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Aleutians to California

Apertural view of Nucella caniculata

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Nucella canaliculata (Duclos, 1832).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404205 on 24 April 2010.

External links

• Gastropods.com : Nucella canaliculata; accessed : 2 December 2010

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