Nucella squamosa

Nucella squamosa
Nucella squamosa
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. squamosa
Binomial name
Nucella squamosa
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]

Purpura clathrata Blainville, 1832
Purpura clathrata Kuster, 1859
Purpura ovalis Blainville, 1832
Purpura squamosa Lamarck, 1816
Purpura squamulosa Gray, 1839
Thais sculpturata Turton, 1932
Thais subglobosa Turton, 1932

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.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Nucella squamosa (Lamarck, 1816).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225334 on 24 April 2010.

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