Nucella lima
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| Nucella lima under attack by the starfish Leptasterias hexactis | |
| 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. lima |
| Binomial name | |
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Nucella lima (Gmelin, 1791) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Murex lima Gmelin, 1791 |
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Murex lima Gmelin, 1791
Purpura attenuata Reeve, 1846
Nucella lima, common name : the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to Baja California, Mexico; and along Northern Japan.
The shell size varies between 19 mm and 51 mm.
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