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Nucella lapillus (Atlantic dogwinkle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The dog whelk, dogwhelk, or Atlantic dogwinkle, scientific name Nucella lapillus, is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. Nucella lapillus was originally described by Linnaeus in 1758 as Buccinum lapillus ( the basionym).
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Prey / Diet

Predators

Calidris maritima (Purple Sandpiper)[2]
Erignathus barbatus (Bearded Seal)[1]
Eulalia viridis (groene bladkieuwworm)[1]
Polysticta stelleri (Steller's Eider)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parorchis acanthus[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2R. W. Summers , S. Smith , M. Nicoll & N. K. Atkinson (1990) Tidal and sexual differences in the diet of Purple Sandpipers Calidris maritima in Scotland, Bird Study, 37:3, 187-194
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0