Ocenebra inornata

Ocenebra inornata common names the "Asian drill", the "Asian oyster drill", the "Japanese oyster drill" and the "Japanese oyster borer", is a species of small predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Ocenebra inornata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Ocenebra
Species:	O. inornata
Binomial name
Ocenebra inornata (Récluz, 1851)
Synonyms
Murex crassus A. Adams, 1853 Murex endermonis E. A. Smith, 1875 Murex inornatus Récluz, 1851 Murex japonicus Dunker, 1860 Murex talienwhanensis Crosse, 1862 Ocinebrellus inornatus (Récluz, 1851) (recombination) Pteropurpura (Ocinebrellus) inornata (Récluz, 1851) (recombination) Tritonium (Fusus) submuricatum Schrenck, 1862 Trophon incompta Gould, 1860

This species is native to Asia (Japan and Korea), but it has become a notorious introduced pest species in oyster beds in the western USA and Europe.

References

• Tryon, G.W. Jr. (1880) Muricinae, Purpurinae. Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systematic, with Illustrations of the Species. Vol. 2. Tryon, Philadelphia, 289 pp., 70 pls. page(s): 256
• Houart R. & Sirenko B.I. (2003) Review of the Recent species of Ocenebra Gray, 1847 and Ocinebrellus Jousseaume, 1880 in the Northwestern Pacific. Ruthenica 13(1): 53–74.
• Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 43: 419-453
• Houart R. (2011) Ocenebra, Pteropurpura, and Ocinebrellus (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) in the northwestern Pacific. American Conchologist 39(4): 12–22.