Acanthinucella spirata
| Acanthinucella spirata | |
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| A live Acanthinucella spirata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Acanthinucella |
| Species: | A. spirata |
| Binomial name | |
| Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Monoceros unicarinata Sowerby I, 1835 | |
Acanthinucella spirata is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Biology
[edit]This species is predatory, preying on the genus Littorina. Its egg capsules are 4-9 mm long, and hold 17-49 embryos. It uses paralytic venom, presumably to hunt its prey.[2]
Distribution
[edit]A. spirata occurs on the West Coast, or the Pacific Ocean coast of North America, living in rocky intertidal zones.[3]
Human use
[edit]This species is known to have been exploited by some Native Americans such as the Chumash of Central California approximately 1000 to 1200 AD.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ↑ Hemingway, George (1978). "Evidence for a paralytic venom in the intertidal snail, Acanthina spirata (Neogastropoda: Thaisidae)". ScienceDirect. Retrieved 26 April 2026.
- ↑ Cowles, Dave (2005). "Acanthina spirata". inverts.wallawalla.edu. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
- ↑ C. Michael Hogan, Los Osos Back Bay, Megalithic Portal, editor A. Burnham (2008)
External links
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- Flagor, Torre E.; Bourdeau, Paul E. (12 September 2018). "First record of the predatory snail Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832) north of its known range". Marine Biodiversity Records. 11 (1): 19. Bibcode:2018MBdR...11...19F. doi:10.1186/s41200-018-0156-z. ISSN 1755-2672.
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