Urosalpinx cinerea, common name the eastern oyster drill, Atlantic oyster drill, or just oyster drill, is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.
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Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Eastern Oyster Drill being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Bedeva paivae
- Hesperisternia multangulus
- Ocenebra edwardsii
- Vokesinotus perrugatus
- Ocinebrellus inornatus
- Roperia poulsoni
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Urosalpinx
- Species
- Urosalpinx cinerea
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