Nucella
Genus of gastropods
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Nucella, 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.
| Nucella | |
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| Three color varieties of Nucella emarginata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Nucella Roding, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum filosum Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Description
Species
Species in the genus Nucella include:[1]
- Nucella angustior Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019
- † Nucella bermejensis Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006
- Nucella canaliculata (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle
- Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848) - common dogwhelk
- Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle
- Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)
- 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) - striped dogwinkle
- Nucella rolani (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984)
- Nucella squamosa (Lamarck, 1816) - scaly dogwhelk
- Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Nucella acuminata Carcelles, 1954 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789)
- Nucella analoga (Forbes, 1852): synonym of Nucella canaliculata Duclos, 1832
- Nucella castanea (Küster, 1886): synonym of Orania castanea (Küster, 1886)
- Nucella cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771): synonym of Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)
- Nucella elongata Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)
- Nucella fuscata (Forbes, 1850): synonym of Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839)
- Nucella heyseana var. elongata Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of Nucella heyseana (Dunker, 1882)
- Nucella lindaniae Lorenz, 1991: synonym of Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
- Nucella pyramidalis (Turton, 1932): synonym of Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848)
- Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
