Ocenebra erinacea

Ocenebra erinacea
A shell of Ocenebra erinacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Ocenebra
Species: O. erinacea
Binomial name
Ocenebra erinacea
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Ocenebra erinacea, common name the European sting winkle, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails.

The name Ocenebra erinaceus is the accepted name according to the database World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS),[1] and the name is also accepted as valid by the ICZN (Op. 886) [2]

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References

  1. WoRMS : Ocenebra erinaceus
  2. Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
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