Buccinulum

Buccinulum
Apertural view of a shell of Buccinulum vittatum vittatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Subfamily: Buccininae
Tribe: Buccinulini
Genus: Buccinulum
Deshayes, 1830[1]
Species

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Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the whelks. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Buccinulum include: [2]

The following species ware also named by A. Powell [3]

References

  1. Deshayes G. P. (1830). Ency. Méth. (Vers.) 2(1): 143; Swainson 1837, Cat. For. Shells, 81.
  2. 2.0 2.1 WoRMS: Buccinulum; accessed : 30 October 2010
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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