Nucella canaliculata

Nucella canaliculata
Nucella caniculata surrounded by thatched barnacles (Semibalanus cariosus), and pile worms (Nereis vexillosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Nucella
Species: N. canaliculata
Binomial name
Nucella canaliculata
(Duclos, 1832)
Synonyms[1]

Purpura analoga Forbes, 1852
Purpura canaliculata Duclos, 1832
Purpura decemcostata Middendorff, 1849
Thais canaliculata var. compressa Dall, 1915

Nucella canaliculata, common name : the Channelled Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 25 mm and 53 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Aleutians to California

Apertural view of Nucella caniculata

References

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