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title: "Striped Dogwinkle"
description: "Nucella ostrina — Andere dieren. Nucella ostrina, the northern striped dogwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/striped-dogwinkle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Striped Dogwinkle

> Nucella ostrina — Andere dieren. Nucella ostrina, the northern striped dogwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

- Scientific name: *Nucella ostrina*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 6407
- Wikidata: [Q3013787](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3013787)
- iNaturalist taxon: [122704](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122704)

## Names

- en: Striped Dogwinkle

## Countries with the most observations

US (3749), CA (1534)

## Summary

Nucella ostrina, the northern striped dogwinkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Other common names for this mollusk include emarginate dogwinkle, short-spired purple dogwinkle, striped dogwinkle, ribbed dogwinkle, emarginate whelk, ribbed rock whelk, rock thais, short-spired purple snail and rock whelk.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Randal · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40108271

## Machine access

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