EditorialPurpura lapillus, Print, The dog whelk, dogwhelk, or Atlantic dogwinkle, scientific name Nucella lapillus, is a species of predatory sea snail, a carnivorous marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.
EditorialShielded dogwhelk, Nassarius arcularia plicatus (Marbled buccinum, Buccinum rumphii). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Lo...