Ocenebra

Ocenebra is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex and rock snails.[2]

Ocenebra
A beachworn shell of Ocenebra erinaceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Ocenebra Gray, 1847[1]
Synonyms[2]
Murex (Ocinebra) Ocinebra Leach, 1852 Tritonalia Fleming, 1828

Species

Species with accepted names within the genus Ocenebra include according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) :[2]

• Ocenebra brevirobusta Houart, 2000
• Ocenebra chavesi Houart, 1996
• Ocenebra circumtexta Stearns, 1871
• Ocenebra edwardsii (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Ocenebra helleri (Brusina, 1865)
• Ocenebra hispidula (Pallary, 1904)
• Ocenebra hybrida (Aradas & Benoit, 1876)
• Ocenebra ingloria (Crosse, 1865)
• Ocenebra inordinata Houart & Abreu, 1994
• Ocenebra leukos (Houart, 2000)
• Ocenebra miscowichae (Pallary, 1920)
• Ocenebra nicolai (Monterosato, 1884)
• Ocenebra paddeui (Bonomolo & Buzzurro, 2006)
• Ocenebra piantonii (Cecalupo, Buzzurro & Mariani, 2008)
• †Ocenebra prionotus (Tate, 1888)
• Ocenebra purpuroidea (Pallary, 1920)
• Ocenebra sclera (Dall, 1919)
• Ocenebra subangulata (Stearns, 1873)
• †Ocenebra vindobonensis (Hörnes, 1853)

Species brought into synonymy

• Ocenebra erinacea (Linnaeus, 1758) - sting winkle : synonym of Ocenebra erinaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) but still accepted as a valid name by the ICZN (Op. 886) [3]
• Ocenebra contracta (Reeve, 1846) : synonym of Ergalatax contracta (Reeve, 1846)
• Ocenebra fenestrata : synonym of Muricodrupa fenestrata (Blainville, 1832)
• Ocenebra gibbosus : synonym of Jaton decussatus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Ocenebra inermicosta Vokes, 1964 : synonym of Inermicosta inermicosta (Vokes, 1964)
• Ocenebra purpuroides (Reeve, 1845): synonym of Vaughtia purpuroides (Reeve, 1845)
• Ocenebra scrobiculata (Philippi, 1846): synonym of Vaughtia scrobiculata (Dunker, 1846)

References

1. Gray (October 1847). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 20: 269; (November 1847), Proc. zool. Soc. London 15: 133.
2. Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Ocenebra Gray, 1847. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138200 on 2010-12-02
3. Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.