Ribbed Dogwinkle
Nucella ostrina
Classification
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
Nucella ostrina est une espèce de mollusques gastéropodes appartenant à la famille des Muricidae. Ces gastéropodes carnivores, à la coquille operculée, sont de couleur variable. Ils vivent sur les côtes rocheuses du Pacifique Nord, des îles Aléoutiennes jusqu'à la Californie.
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.
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Distribution
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