Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Ocenebrinae

Ocinebrina Jousseaume, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Murex (Corallinia)*	Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882	synonym
*Ocenebra (Ocinebrina)*	Jousseaume, 1880	synonym

Children

Ocinebrina aciculata (Lamarck, 1822)
Ocinebrina aegeensis Aissaoui, Barco & Oliverio, 2017
Ocinebrina azorensis Houart, Russini & Oliverio, 2022
Ocinebrina corallina (Scacchi, 1836)
Ocinebrina corallinoides Pallary, 1912
Ocinebrina reinai Bonomolo & Crocetta, 2012
Ocinebrina scalaris (Brocchi, 1814)

Literature

original description	Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338.
additional source	Barco, A.; Houart, R.; Bonomolo, G.; Crocetta, F.; Oliverio, M. (2013). Molecular data reveal cryptic lineages within the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean small mussel drills of the Ocinebrina edwardsii complex (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (2): 389-407.
additional source	Barco, A.; Aissaoui, C.; Houart, R.; Bonomolo, G.; Crocetta, F. & Oliverio, M. (2018). Revision of the Ocinebrina aciculata species complex (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 84 (1): 19-29.
additional source	Crocetta, F.; Bonomolo, G.; Albano, P. G.; Barco, A.; Houart, R.; Oliverio, M. (2012). The status of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean small mussel drills of the Ocinebrina aciculata complex (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae), with the description of a new species. Scientia Marina. 76(1): 177-189.
status source	Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). Zoologica Scripta. 46 (3): 322-335.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ocinebrina Jousseaume, 1880. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138201