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Nucella ostrina northern striped dogwinkle

Nucella ostrinais commonly referred to as northern striped dogwinkle. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profilbild Urheber Robyn J. Waayers, USA

Nucella ostrina array.2016


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lexID:
10593 
AphiaID:
404225 
Scientific:
Nucella ostrina 
German:
Gehäuseschnecke 
English:
Northern Striped Dogwinkle 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricidae (Family) > Nucella (Genus) > ostrina (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Gould, ), 1852 
Occurrence:
Alaska (Western Atlantic), Aleutian Islands, Gulf of California, North Pacific (Ocean), USA 
Size:
1.18" - 1.57" (3cm - 4cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 68 °F (°C - 20°C) 
Food:
Barnacles, Clams, Predatory, Snails 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
None 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2017-04-02 08:16:15 

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Nucella ostrina (Gould, 1852)

Like all members of family Nucellidae, Nucella ostrina has a strong shell and a horny operculum (dark brown).Conmmonly known as the northern striped dogwinkle, this species feed primary of the mussel Mytilus trossulus, M. californianus and the barnacle Balanus glandula.

The yellow, vase-shaped egg capsules, which are attached via short stalks to rocks well up in the intertidal and called "sea oats".Each capsule contains about 550 eggs.

Similar to Nucella emarginata.

Synonymised names:
Purpura ostrina Gould, 1852 (original combination)
Thais emarginata var. projecta Dall, 1915 (synonym)

Scientific paper

  1. Role of Maternal Provisioning in Controlling Interpopulation Variation in Hatching Size in the Marine Snail Nucella ostrina, Michelle J. Lloyd and Louis A. Gosselin, 2007
  2. Initial juvenile size and environmental severity: influence of predation and wave exposure on hatching size in Nucella ostrina, Gosselin, LA; Rehak, R , 2007
  3. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ROCKY INTERTIDAL PREDATOR NUCELLA OSTRINA ALONG AN ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS GRADIENT, Dahlhoff, Elizabeth P.; Buckley, Bradley A.; Menge, Bruce A. , 2001
  4. Physiology of the Rocky Intertidal Predator Nucella ostrina along an Environmental Stress Gradient, Elizabeth P. Dahlhoff, Bradley A. Buckley and Bruce A. Menge, 2001

External links

  1. inverts.wallawalla.edu (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. seanet.stanfort.edu (en). Abgerufen am 06.08.2022.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

Pictures

Spawn

Nucella ostrina (emarginata) Northern or Striped Dogwinkle, & Eggs-Marlin Harms

Commonly

Northern Striped Dogwinkle ( Nucella osterina),Near Cannon Beach, Oregon 2013
Northern Striped Dogwinkles (Nucella osterina), Vancouver Island, British Columbia 2014
Northern Striped Dogwinkle (Nucella osterina), Cape Lookout, Oregon 2018
Northern Striped Dogwinkle (Nucella osterina) in orange, Kyuquot, British Columbia 2012
Nucella ostrina aperture (Carmel Bay) 2021
Nucella ostrina shell (Carmel Bay) 2021
Nucella ostrina array.2016
Nucella ostrina,Striped Dogwinkle , Pillar Point 2016

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