Biology:Acanthinucella

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Acanthinucella
Acanthina punctulata.jpg
A hermit-crabbed shell of Acanthinucella punctulata
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Acanthinucella

Cooke, 1918

Acanthinucella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Acanthinucella include:

Image Scientific name Distribution
Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871)[2] Mexico
Mating whelks at tide pools.jpg Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835)[3] West Coast of North America, from Monterey, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico.
Acanthina spirata (5403679778).jpg Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832)[4] West Coast aka the Pacific Ocean coast of North America.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2822503 entry