Buccinum lyperum
Appearance
Buccinum lyperum | |
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A shell of Buccinum lyperum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Buccinidae |
Genus: | Buccinum |
Species: | B. lyperum
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Binomial name | |
Buccinum lyperum W. H. Dall, 1919
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Synonyms | |
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Buccinum lyperum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1] A few authors use the epithet "lyperium"
Description
[edit]The size of an adult shell varies between 51 mm and 75 mm.
Distribution
[edit]This species is found in the North Pacific Ocean along the Bering Sea and Kamchatka.
References
[edit]- ^ Buccinum lyperum Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2011.
- Baily J.L. 1961. A new name for Buccinum tenue, Gray, 1839 preoccupied. Veliger, 3 (4): 93–94.
- Kosuge S. 1972. Illustrations of type specimens of molluscs described by William Healey Dall; Tokyo, 65 p.
- D. O. Alexeyev, A. V. Gornichnykh , New gastropod species Buccinum frausseni sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Buccinidae), with comments on intraspecific structure of Buccinum scalariforme Beck in Møller, 1842; Ruthenica, 2009, vol. 19, No. 1: 1-18
External links
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