Back

Dog Whelk

Nucella lapillus

Classification

Family
Muricidae

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.

Distribution

(c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Julien Renoult · CC-BY
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 4,509France · 2,488Netherlands · 733Spain · 129Germany · 51Belgium · 39