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

Ocinebrina aciculata (Lamarck, 1822)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Fusus minutus*	Deshayes, 1835	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Murex aciculatus*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym
*Murex aciculatus var. badia*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Murex aciculatus var. curta*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882	synonym
*Murex aciculatus var. elongata*	Monterosato, 1878	synonym
*Murex aciculatus var. minor*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882	synonym
*Murex inconspicuus*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1841	synonym
*Murex pistacia*	Reeve, 1845	synonym
*Ocenebra wardiana*	F. C. Baker, 1891	synonym
*Ocinebrina aciculata aciculata*	(Lamarck, 1822)	synonym
*Ocinebrina aciculata var. cingulifera*	Pallary, 1920	synonym
*Ocinebrina aciculata var. elongata*	Pallary, 1920	synonym
*Ocinebrina aciculata var. scalariformis*	Monterosato, 1933	synonym
*Ocinebrina corallinoides var. major*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Ocinebrina scalaropsis*	Settepassi, 1977	synonym
*Tritonalia aciculata*	(Lamarck, 1822)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: coralline sting winkle 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.

German: Korallen Purpurschnecke; Korallen-Seekälbchen

Literature

basis of record	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.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ocinebrina aciculata (Lamarck, 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:140407