Nucella lima

Nucella lima, commonly known as the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Nucella lima
Nucella lima under attack by the starfish Leptasterias hexactis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Nucella
Species:	N. lima
Binomial name
Nucella lima (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Murex lima Gmelin, 1791 Purpura attenuata Reeve, 1846

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to Baja California, Mexico; and along Northern Japan.

Description

Nucella lima shell

The shell size varies between 19 mm and 51 mm.