Ricinula

Ricinula is a genus of predatory sea snails, marinegastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Ricinula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda cladeHypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Ricinula Lamarck, 1816

Ricinula has become a synonym of Drupa Röding, 1798^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Ricinula include:

• Ricinula hystrix (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Ricinula nodus Lamarck, 1816: synonym of Drupa ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758)