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title: "Frilled Dogwinkle"
description: "Nucella lamellosa — Weitere Tiere. 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."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/frilled-dogwinkle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Frilled Dogwinkle

> Nucella lamellosa — Weitere Tiere. 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.

- Scientific name: *Nucella lamellosa*
- Category: `other` (Weitere Tiere)
- Habitats: `sea` (Meer & Küste)
- iNaturalist observations: 10734
- Wikidata: [Q3175341](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3175341)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117641](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117641)

## Names

- en: Frilled Dogwinkle

## Countries with the most observations

US (5839), CA (3988)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucella_lamellosa

## Photo

![Frilled Dogwinkle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/frilled-dogwinkle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Randal · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123550885

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/frilled-dogwinkle?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).