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Nucella 
Three color varieties of one Nucella species, probably Nucella emarginata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Muricidae Subfamily: Ocenebrinae Genus: Nucella
Roding, 1798Species See text
Synonyms[1] Polytropa Swainson, 1840
Polytropalicus Rovereto, 1899Nucella, 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.
Species
Species in the genus Nucella include[1]:
- Nucella canaliculata (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle
- Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848)
- Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle
- Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)
- Nucella fuscata (Forbes, 1850)
- Nucella heyseana (Dunker, 1882)
- Nucella lamellosa (Gmelin, 1791) - frilled dogwinkle
- Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic dogwinkle, dog whelk
- Nucella lima (Gmelin, 1791) - file dogwinkle
- Nucella ostrina (Gould, 1852)
- Nucella pyramidalis (Turton, 1932)
- Nucella rolani (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984)
- Nucella squamosa (Lamarck, 1816)
- Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Nucella acuminata Carcelles, 1954 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789)
- Nucella cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771) : synonym of Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Nucella elongata Golikov & Kussakin, 1962 accepted as Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)
- Nucella lindaniae Lorenz, 1991 accepted as Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
- Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798 accepted as Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
- ^ a b Nucella Röding, 1798. 2 January 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138199.
- "Nucella". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=73292.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. 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
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