- Nucella squamosa
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Nucella squamosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: 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, 1932Nucella 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]
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- ^ 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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