Nucella emarginata | |
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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. emarginata |
Binomial name | |
Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839) |
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Nucella emarginata, common name the emarginate dog winkle, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
The adult shell size of this species can reach 25 mm or 30 mm
This species is distributed between the Bering Sea and Pacific Mexico.