Prickly rock shell
Mancinella echinata
- Usual depth12 m
- Water temperature16–30 °C
- Best monthsSeptember, October, and November
- How commonRare
About this species
Mancinella echinata, common names prickly rock shell, prickly rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Mancinella echinata”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 1 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 4 records
- April: 4 records
- May: 5 records
- June: 8 records
- July: 5 records
- August: 8 records
- September: 16 records
- October: 11 records
- November: 11 records
- December: 9 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 12 m · Deepest record: 12 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 16–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Prickly rock shell, Prickly rock snail, Prickly Purple, prickly rock shell, prickly rock snail
Names in 4 more languages
- German
- Igel-Felsschnecke, Stachelige Felsschnecke
- Japanese
- ウニレイシ
- Korean
- 가시두드럭고둥
- Simplified Chinese
- 棘岩螺
Other scientific names: Purpura echinata, Thais (Mancinella) echinata, Thais echinata
Similar species
- Alou rock shell
Mancinella alouina
- Lamarck's spiny rock shell
Mancinella echinulata
Adusta murexChicoreus brunneus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 277 open-data records from 1903 to 2008.
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