Nucella, common name dog whelks or dog winkles, is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae which is part of the large family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

(Described as Polytropa) The spire is acuminate. The whorlss are foliated or tuberculose. The inner lip is flattened. The siphonal canal is small and oblique. The aperture is narrowed at the forepart.

Species

Species in the genus Nucella include:

• Nucella angustior Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019

• † Nucella bermejensis Lozano-Francisco & Vera-Peláez, 2006

• Nucella canaliculata (Duclos, 1832) - channeled dogwinkle

• Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848) - common dogwhelk

• Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839) - emarginate dogwinkle

• Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)

• Nucella heyseana (Dunker, 1882)

• Nucella lamellosa (Gmelin, 1791) - frilled dogwinkle

• Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic dogwinkle, dog whelk

• Nucella lima (Gmelin, 1791) - file dogwinkle

• Nucella ostrina (Gould, 1852) - striped dogwinkle

• Nucella rolani (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984)

• Nucella squamosa (Lamarck, 1816) - scaly dogwhelk

• Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)

• Species brought into synonymy :

• Nucella acuminata Carcelles, 1954 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789)

• Nucella analoga (Forbes, 1852): synonym of Nucella canaliculata Duclos, 1832

• Nucella castanea (Küster, 1886): synonym of Orania castanea (Küster, 1886)

• Nucella cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771): synonym of Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)

• Nucella elongata Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of Nucella freycinetii (Deshayes, 1839)

• Nucella fuscata (Forbes, 1850): synonym of Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839)

• Nucella heyseana var. elongata Golikov & Kussakin, 1962: synonym of Nucella heyseana (Dunker, 1882)

• Nucella lindaniae Lorenz, 1991: synonym of Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)

• Nucella pyramidalis (Turton, 1932): synonym of Nucella dubia (Krauss, 1848)

• Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32.

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp.

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp.180–213

• Marko P. B. 2004. ‘What's larvae got to do with it?' Disparate patterns of post-glacial population structure in two benthic marine gastropods with identical dispersal potential. Molecular Ecology, 13: 597–611

• Chichvarkhin A.Y. & Chichvarkhina O.V. (2014). Systematics of the western Pacific "giant" dog-whelks referred to Nucella elongata, Nucella heyseana, and Nucella lamellosa (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Mollusks of the eastern Asia and adjacent seas, Abstracts of the conference, Vladivostok, 6-8 October 2014. 11-12

External links

• Röding, P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp.

• Kool S.P. & Boss K.J. (1992). Nucella Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae): type species. The Nautilus. 106(1): 21-23

• Kool S.P. 1993. The Systematic position of the genus Nucella.(Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae). The Nautilus, 107(2): 43-57

• Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.