(Linnaeus, 1758)
Nucella lapillus
Atlantic Dogwhelk
Phylum:
Mollusca
Taxonomy
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Neogastropoda
Family:
Muricidae
ANSP 412523
Shell Information
Length (mm): 40
Chirality:
Dextral
Description:
Ecological Information
Distribution:
Greenland to New York
Depth (m):
0 to 0 meters
Diet:
Carnivore; They a generalists feeding a a wide range of mollusks, crustaceans and other invertebrates.
Habitat:
Works Cited
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140403 on 2021-06-23
Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/
Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (214). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/1.116/j.ecoinf.214.8.5.