Acanthinucella

Acanthinucella
A hermit-crabbed shell of Acanthinucella punctulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

Species

Species within the genus Acanthinucella include:

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871)Mexico
Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835)West Coast of North America, from Monterey, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico.
Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832)West Coast aka the Pacific Ocean coast of North America.

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