North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Nucella Röding, 1798

Dogwhelk feeding on barnacles

AphiaID

138199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138199)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Buccinum filosum Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903

Original name

Nucella Röding, 1798

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Species Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Nucella rolani (Bogi & Nofroni, 1984)
Species Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798 accepted as Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 130 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nucella Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138199 on 2026-06-02

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Nucella Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138199 on 2026-06-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2009-06-05 00:35:10Z

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Houart, Roland

2014-03-08 16:11:48Z

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Gofas, Serge

2017-05-17 09:36:40Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2023-11-13 17:53:46Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 130 [details]

basis of record Houart, R. (2024). Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
page(s): 46 [details]

additional source Rehder, H. A. (1962). The status of Nucella Roeding. The Nautilus. 75(3): 109-111, pl. 10, figs. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8283033 [details]

additional source Marko P. B. 2004. ‘What's larvae got to do with it?' Disparate patterns of post-glacial population structure in two benthic marine gastropods with identical dispersal potential. Molecular Ecology, 13: 597–611., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-294x.2004.02096.x [details]

additional source Kool, S. P. & Boss, K. J. (1992). Nucella Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Muricidae): type species. The Nautilus. 106(1): 21-23., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8271255 [details]

additional source Kool, S. P. (1993). The systematic position of the genus Nucella.(Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae). The Nautilus. 107(2): 43-57, figs. 1-65., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8496902 [details]

additional source Chichvarkhin A.Y. & Chichvarkhina O.V. (2014). Systematics of the western Pacific "giant" dog-whelks referred to Nucella elongata, Nucella heyseana, and Nucella lamellosa (Muricidae, Gastropoda). Mollusks of the eastern Asia and adjacent seas, Abstracts of the conference, Vladivostok, 6-8 October 2014. 11-12. [details]

status source Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12219 [details] Available for editors

subsequent type designation Stewart, R. B. (1927). Gabb's California fossil type gastropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 287–447, pls. 20–32.
page(s): 386, note 260 [details] Available for editors