American Sting Winkle

Urosalpinx cinerea

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae

Urosalpinx is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the murex snail family, Muricidae. Description The shell is elongated oval, or short fusiform, longitudinally ribbed or undulated and spirally striated. The aperture has a short siphonal canal.

Distribution

American Sting Winkle — (c) Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Netherlands · 33United Kingdom · 16France · 12Spain · 1

Sources and credits

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American Sting Winkle

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