Acanthinucella

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Acanthinucella
Acanthina punctulata.jpg
A hermit-crabbed shell of Acanthinucella punctulata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Acanthinucella
Cooke, 1918

Acanthinucella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]

Species

Species within the genus Acanthinucella include:

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871) [2] Mexico
Mating whelks at tide pools.jpg Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835) [3] West Coast of North America, from Monterey, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico.
Acanthina spirata (5403679778).jpg Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832) [4] West Coast aka the Pacific Ocean coast of North America.

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