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.[1]

Ocenebra inornata
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O. inornata
Binomial name
Ocenebra inornata
(Récluz, 1851)
Synonyms[1]
  • 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.

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  1. ^ a b Ocenebra inornata (Recluz, 1851). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 July 2012.
  • 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.