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Ocenebra inornata (Récluz, 1851)
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Ocenebra inornata common names the "Asian drill", the "Asian oyster drill", the "Japanese oyster drill" and the "Japanese oyster borer", is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
This species is native to Asia (Japan and Korea), but it has become a notorious introduced pest species in oyster beds in the western USA and Europe.
Description
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Distribution
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References
- ^ a b Ocenebra inornata (Recluz, 1851). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.
- Tryon, G.W. Jr. (1880) Muricinae, Purpurinae. Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic, with Illustrations of the Species. Vol. 2. Tryon, Philadelphia, 289 pp., 70 pls. page(s): 256
- Houart R. & Sirenko B.I. (2003) Review of the Recent species of Ocenebra Gray, 1847 and Ocinebrellus Jousseaume, 1880 in the Northwestern Pacific. Ruthenica 13(1): 53–74.
- Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453
- Houart R. (2011) Ocenebra, Pteropurpura, and Ocinebrellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) in the northwestern Pacific. American Conchologist 39(4): 12–22.