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Acanthinucella
Sign in to saveAcanthinucella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 86
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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- Parent taxon
- Ocenebrinae
- Image
- Acanthina punctulata.jpg
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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: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- | || Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871)||Mexico |- |120px ||Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835)||West Coast of North America, from Monterey, California, to northern Baja California, Mexico. |- |120px || Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832)||West Coast aka the Pacific Ocean coast of North America. |- |}
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