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

Urosalpinx cinerea (Say, 1822)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Fusus Bruguière, 1789

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Urosalpinx*	W. Stimpson, 1865	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Amerikaanse oesterboorder

English: American oyster drill; American sting winkle; American tingle; American whelk tingle; Atlantic oyster drill sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: perceur d'huitre sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Amerikanischer Austernbohrer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: カキナカセ

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Hargis, W. J., Jr. & MacKenzie, C. L., Jr. (1961). Sexual behavior of the oyster drills: Eupleura caudata and Urosalpinx cinerea. The Nautilus. 75(1): 7-16.
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review. 43: 419-453.
additional source	Stearns, R. E. C. (1894). Urosalpinx cinereus in San Francisco Bay. The Nautilus. 8(2): 13-14.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Allen, J. F. (1958). Urosalpinx cinerea and Eupleura caudata in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The Nautilus. 72(2): 49-51.
additional source	Dall, W. H. (1907). Notes: Ilyanassa obsoleta in California. The Nautilus. 21(8): 91.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Turgeon, K. W. & Fralick, R. A. (1973). Size and sex ratio differences in Urosalpinx cinerea (Say) (Muricidae) from Great Bay, New Hampshire. The Nautilus. 87(4): 112-113, figs. 1-2.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Johnson, C. W. (1928). Urosalpinx cinerea Say in England. The Nautilus. 42(2): 68.
additional source	Stearns, R. E. C. (1899). Urosalpinx cinereus in San Francisco Bay. The Nautilus. 12(10): 112.
additional source	Carriker, M. R. (1975). Radular anomaly in Urosalpinx cinerea (Gastropoda: Muricidae). The Nautilus. 89(3): 91-94, figs. 1-4.
additional source	Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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External Links

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Urosalpinx cinerea (Say, 1822). 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:140429