#4819 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Frilled Dogwinkle
Nucella lamellosa
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what is it?
Nucella lamellosa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 10,871 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1791 (235 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Frilled Dogwinkle
- scientific name
- Nucella lamellosa
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Muricidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 10,871
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1791 by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
relatives· Muricidae
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Ocinebrellus inornatus
👀 31 in NL
#4661 📷 7Atlantic Dogwhelk
🇳🇱 Purperslak
Nucella lapillus
👀 27 in NL
#4747 📷 10European Sting Winkle
🇳🇱 Stekelhoren
Ocenebra erinaceus
👀 4 in NL
#4768 📷 7Banded Dye-murex
🇳🇱 Gebandeerde purperstekelhoren
Hexaplex trunculus
🌍 4.7k seen
#4777 📷 10Red-mouthed Dog Winkle
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Stramonita haemastoma
🌍 3.5k seen
#4795 📷 8Purple Dye Murex
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Bolinus brandaris
🌍 2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117641, Wikidata Q3175341, GBIF 5193451, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.