species 10,649 observations

Frilled Dogwinkle

Nucella lamellosa

Field notes

Nucella lamellosa, commonly known as the frilled dogwinkle or wrinkled purple whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, its range extending in the intertidal zone from the Aleutian Islands southward to central California.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided