''Nucella'',

common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contra ...

dog whelks or dog winkles, is a

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of small to medium-sized

predatory Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill t ...

sea snails,

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gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

s in the subfamily

Ocenebrinae Ocenebrinae is a taxonomic subfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This subfamily is within the large family Muricidae, which are commonly known as the murex and rock snails. In one other version of current gastropod ...

which is part of the large 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 about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Ne ...

, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species

Species in the genus ''Nucella'' include: * '' Nucella analoga'' (Forbes, 1852) * '' Nucella angustior'' Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019 * † '' Nucella bermejensis'' Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006 * '' Nucella canaliculata'' (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle *''

Nucella dubia ''Nucella dubia'', common name the common dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description Distribution This marine species occurs off Namibia Namib ...

'' (Krauss, 1848) * '' Nucella emarginata'' (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle *''

Nucella freycinetii ''Nucella freycinetii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class c ...

'' (Deshayes, 1839) *''

Nucella fuscata ''Nucella fuscata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class compr ...

'' (Forbes, 1850) *''

Nucella heyseana ''Nucella heyseana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class compr ...

'' (Dunker, 1882) * ''

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 ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) - frilled dogwinkle * ''

Nucella lapillus 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 ...

'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological ...

) - Atlantic dogwinkle,

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 Linnaeu ...

* ''

Nucella lima ''Nucella lima'', common name : 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 Arcti ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) - file dogwinkle *''

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-spir ...

'' (Gould, 1852) *'' Nucella rolani'' (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984) *''

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 knobbl ...

'' (Lamarck, 1816) * ''

Nucella wahlbergi ''Nucella wahlbergi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class com ...

'' (Krauss, 1848) ; Species brought into synonymy : *''Nucella acuminata'' Carcelles, 1954 accepted as ''

Acanthina unicornis ''Acanthina unicornis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class co ...

'' (Bruguière, 1789) * ''Nucella castanea'' (Küster, 1886): synonym of ''

Orania castanea ''Orania castanea'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class compris ...

'' (Küster, 1886) *''Nucella cingulata'' (

, 1771): synonym of ''

Trochia cingulata ''Trochia cingulata'', common name : the girdled dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The shell size varies between 20 mm and 45 mm D ...

'' (

, 1771) * ''Nucella elongata'' Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of ''Nucella freycinetii'' (Deshayes, 1839) * ''Nucella heyseana'' var. ''elongata'' Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of ''

'' (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'' (

)

References

* Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32. * Vaught, K.C. (1989). ''A classification of the living Mollusca''. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . 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 * Marko P. B. 2004. ‘What's larvae got to do with it?' Disparate patterns of post-glacial population structure in two benthic marine gastropods with identical dispersal potential. Molecular Ecology, 13: 597–611 * Chichvarkhin A.Y. & Chichvarkhina O.V. (2014). Systematics of the western Pacific "giant" dog-whelks referred to Nucella elongata, Nucella heyseana, and Nucella lamellosa (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Mollusks of the eastern Asia and adjacent seas, Abstracts of the conference, Vladivostok, 6-8 October 2014. 11-12

External links

Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.

Kool S.P. & Boss K.J. (1992). Nucella Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae): type species. The Nautilus. 106(1): 21-23

Kool S.P. 1993. The Systematic position of the genus Nucella.(Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae). The Nautilus, 107(2): 43-57

Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.
* Muricidae {{Muricidae-stub