Nucella rolani
Nucella rolani
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. rolani
Binomial name
Nucella rolani
(Bogi & Nofroni, 1984)
Synonyms[1]

Coralliophila rolani Bogi & Nofroni, 1984

Nucella rolani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1] N. rolani is believed to be a close relative or morphlogical variant of the other east Atlantic member of its genus, Nucella lapillus.[2]

Description

Nucella sp. has been noted to have high levels of intraspecies variation in shell appearance, which historically has resulted in potentially genetically similar populations being "split" rather than "lumped" in taxonomy.[2] The shell size is up to 24 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Portugal and Northwest Spain.

References

  1. 1 2 Nucella rolani (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 December 2010.
  2. 1 2 Marko, Peter B.; Moran, Amy L.; Kolotuchina, Natalya K.; Zaslavskaya, Nadezhda I. (2014). "Phylogenetics of the gastropod genus Nucella: species identities, timing of diversification and correlated patterns of life-history evolution". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 80: 341–343. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu024.
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