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Ocenebra 
A beachworn shell of Ocenebra erinaceus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Muricidae Genus: Ocenebra
Gray, 1847[1]Synonyms[2] - Murex (Ocinebra)
- Ocinebra Leach, 1852
- Tritonalia Fleming, 1828
Ocenebra is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails. [2]
Species
Species with accepted names within the genus Ocenebra include according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) :[2]
- Ocenebra acanthophora (A. Adams, 1863)
- Ocenebra brevirobusta Houart, 2000
- Ocenebra chavesi Houart, 1996
- Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Ocenebra inornata (Recluz, 1851)
- Ocenebra lumaria Yokoyama, 1926
- Species brought into synonymy
- Ocenebra erinacea (Linnaeus, 1758) - sting winkle : synonym of Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) but still accepted as a valid name by the ICZN (Op. 886) [3]
- Ocenebra contracta (Reeve, 1846) : synonym of Ergalatax contracta (Reeve, 1846)
- Ocenebra fenestrata : synonym of Muricodrupa fenestrata (Blainville, 1832)
- Ocenebra gibbosus : synonym of Jaton decussatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Ocenebra inermicosta Vokes, 1964 : synonym of Inermicosta inermicosta (Vokes, 1964)
References
- ^ Gray (October 1847). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 20: 269; (November 1847), Proc. zool. Soc. London 15: 133.
- ^ a b c Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Ocenebra Gray, 1847. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138200 on 2010-12-02
- ^ Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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