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Nucella Lapillus
''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. Description (Described as ''Polytropa'') The spire is acuminate. The whorls are foliated or tuberculose. The inner lip is flattened. The siphonal canal is small and oblique. The aperture is narrowed at the forepart. Species Species in the genus ''Nucella'' include: * '' 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'' (Linnae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Whelk
The dog whelk, dogwhelk, or Atlantic dogwinkle (''Nucella lapillus'') is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. ''Nucella lapillus'' was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' as ''Buccinum lapillus'' (the basionym). Distribution This species is found around the coasts of Europe and in the northern west Atlantic coast of North America. It also can be found in estuarine waters along the Atlantic coasts. This species prefers rocky shores, where it eats mussels and acorn barnacles.Colin Little, J. A. Kitching, 1996''The Biology of Rocky Shores'' pp. 140-145. Shell description The dog whelk shell is small and rounded with a pointed spire and a short, straight siphonal canal (a groove on the underside of the shell) and a deep anal canal. The overall shell shape varies quite widely according to the degree of exposure to wave action of the shore on which a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Emarginata
''Nucella emarginata'', common name the emarginate dogwinkle, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description ''N. emarginata'' is a rocky intertidal gastropod carnivore that feeds on a variety of sessile and sedentary species such as barnacles, mussels, and limpets. The adult shell size of this species can reach 25 mm or 30 mm. Feeding ''N. emarginata'' attacks prey by drilling. It has a special organ called the accessory boring organ, or ABO, that contains acid which it uses to dissolve a small hole in the shell of its prey.Gruber, G.L., Carriker, M.R., 1990. A note on the accessory boring organ and shell boring by the "Loco", ''Concholepas concholepas'' (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Bulletin of Marine Science 47, 739–744. Carriker, M.R., Gruber, G.L., 1999. Uniqueness of the Gastropod Accessory Boring Organ (ABO) Comparative Biology, an Update. Journal of Shellfish Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Canaliculata
''Nucella canaliculata'', commonly known as the channeled dog winkle or the channeled purple, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. The shell grows to a maximum length of about . This species is distributed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean from the Aleutian Islands to California. Description ''Nucella canaliculata'' has a robust shell with a strong spire, a short notch to house the siphon, and up to seven whorls. The whorls are demarcated from each other by deep grooves and are sculpted with many low spiral ridges of approximately even size. The surface of the shell is matt; small individuals are often orange while larger ones are grayish or pale brown. The margins of the aperture are often yellow, and the animal's soft parts are protected by a horny operculum. The maximum length of this species is about . This dog winkle can be distinguished from the frilled dog winkle (''Nucella lamellosa'') by the ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Wahlbergi
''Nucella wahlbergi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With over 1,700 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neog ..., the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution References Muricidae Gastropods described in 1848 Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss {{Muricidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Squamosa
''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. Description The scaly dogwhelk is a small brown whelk with many fine knobbly spiral ridges on its shell. It grows up to 5 cm in total length. The ridges of the snail's shell are not often visible because the whelk is usually overgrown by the high-spined commensal hydroid, ''Hydtractinia altispina'', which looks prickly and is orange.Branch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. 2010. ''Two Oceans: a guide to the marine life of southern Africa''. . Distribution This marine snail is found off the southern African coast from central Namibia to Port St Johns, subtidally to 50m under water. Ecology The eggs are laid in small groups of capsules which resemble stalked clubs. The commensal Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Rolani
''Nucella rolani'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ''N. rolani'' is believed to be a close relative or morphological variant of the other east Atlantic member of its genus, ''Nucella lapillus.'' Description ''Nucella sp.'' has been noted to have high levels of intraspecies variation in shell appearance, which historically has resulted in potentially genetically similar populations being "split" rather than "lumped" in taxonomy. The shell size is up to 24 mm. Distribution This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Portugal and Northwest Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur .... References External links * Muricidae Gastropods described in 1984 {{Murici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Ostrina
''Nucella ostrina'', the northern striped dogwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Other common names for this mollusk include emarginate dogwinkle, short-spired purple dogwinkle, striped dogwinkle, ribbed dogwinkle, emarginate whelk, ribbed rock whelk, rock thais, short-spired purple snail and rock whelk. Description This dogwinkle has a robust shell with three indistinct whorls. It can be in length, but a more typical length is or less; the aperture is less than half the diameter of the shell and can be closed by a brown, horny operculum. The exterior of the shell is spirally ridged, often with heavy ridges alternating with more delicate ones. The heavy ridges may bear coarse nodules, but in more exposed locations these, and the ridges themselves, may be partially smoothed. The ridges tend to be pale in color and the furrows between them dark, typically brown, gray, black, orange or yellow. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Lima
''Nucella lima'', commonly known as the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Distribution This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to Baja California, Mexico; and along Northern Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... Description The shell size varies between 19 mm and 51 mm. References External links * Muricidae Gastropods described in 1791 Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin {{Muricidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Edition Of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' (Latin; the English title is ''A General System of Nature'') is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature. In it, Linnaeus introduced binomial nomenclature for animals, something he had already done for plants in his 1753 publication of ''Species Plantarum''. Starting point Before 1758, most biological catalogues had used polynomial names for the taxa included, including earlier editions of ''Systema Naturae''. The first work to consistently apply binomial nomenclature across the animal kingdom was the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature therefore chose 1 January 1758 as the "starting point" for zoological nomenclature and asserted that the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'' was to be treated as if published on that date. Names published before that date are unavailable, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Lapillus
''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. Description (Described as ''Polytropa'') The spire is acuminate. The whorls are foliated or tuberculose. The inner lip is flattened. The siphonal canal is small and oblique. The aperture is narrowed at the forepart. Species Species in the genus ''Nucella'' include: * '' 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'' (Linnae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nucella Lamellosa
''Nucella lamellosa'', commonly known as the frilled dogwinkle or wrinkled purple whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, its range extending in the intertidal zone from the Aleutian Islands southward to central California. Description ''Nucella lamellosa'' is a large snail with a strong shell growing to a length of and width of . The shell has no more than seven whorls and has a horny operculum. The spire is well developed, with a short notch to accommodate the siphon. This snail is rather variable in colour, shape and surface texture. Some specimens are smooth, others rough and others have frilled lamellae (angular plates). Some of these features may be as a result of abrasion and wave action, and when present, the spiral sculpture takes the form of one or two ridges per whorl, the whorls being flattened near their joints making them appear to be an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
