Sulcosinus Dall 1895
- Dataset
- Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Buccinidae
- genus
- Sulcosinus
description
Description: Periostracum relatively thick, light olive, adherent, shiny or with very fine rows of microscopic bristles; shoulder subangulate, whorls rounded below strongly tabulate shoulder, suture deeply impressed. Apical whorls depressed. Axial sculpture lacking; spiral sculpture of early teleconch with sharply incised striations, becoming obsolete in later whorls; mature sculpture of low, somewhat irregular, slanted ridges; siphonal canal lacking, aperture deeply notched at base of pillar; lip thickened and slightly flared; lip may be continuous posteriorly across anal sinus, with continuous, offset parietal shield. Radula typical of buccininae, rachidian tooth with multiple cusps (3 – 4), lateral teeth with three cusps. Operculum large, nearly filling aperture, nucleus sub-terminal.
type_taxon
Type species: Buccinum taphrium Dall, 1891 (by OD)
Name
- Homonyms
- Sulcosinus Dall 1895
- Sulcosinus