Mancinella echinata

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| taxon = Mancinella echinata

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| authority = (Blainville, 1832)

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• Purpura echinata Blainville, 1832
• Thais (Mancinella) echinata (Blainville, 1832)

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Mancinella echinata, common names prickly rock shell, prickly rock snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase (2018). Mancinella echinata (Blainville, 1832). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714198 on 2019-01-06Tong, K.Y.L. (1986) The population dynamics and feeding ecology of Thais clavigera (Kuster) and Morula musiva (Kiener) (mollusca: gastropoda: muricidae) in Hong Kong. MPhil thesis. The University of Hong Kong.