Lamarck's spiny rock shell
Mancinella echinulata
- Water temperature23–29 °C
- Best monthsFebruary and June
- How commonRare
About this species
Mancinella echinulata, common names Lamarck's spiny rock shell, Lamarck's spiny rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 1 records
- February: 2 records
- March: 0 records
- April: 0 records
- May: 0 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 1 records
- August: 1 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 23–29 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Lamarck's spiny rock shell, Lamarck's spiny rock snail
Names in 4 more languages
- German
- Lamarcks Felsschnecke
- Japanese
- シロクチキナレイシ
- Korean
- 얇은밤송이두드럭고둥
- Simplified Chinese
- 棘岩螺, 金唇岩螺
Other scientific names: Mancinella vannaui, Purpura echinulata, Purpura lischkei, Purpura luteomarginata, Purpura mancinelloides, Thais (Mancinella) echinulata, Thais echinulata
Similar species
- Alou rock shell
Mancinella alouina
- Prickly rock shell
Mancinella echinata
Common Small PurpleAgnewia tritoniformis
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).
- 64 open-data records from 1951 to 1971.
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