Buccinum Linnaeus 1758
- 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
- Buccinum
diagnosis
Diagnosis: Small to large shells, 15 – 140 + mm; thin to thick, with rounded to flat-sided whorls, aperture large, canal very short; white to tan; periostracum thin to thick and pilose; operculum small to large, round or oval, concentric, with central or lateral nucleus. Radula: Rachidian tooth with 3 – 7 cusps, Lateral teeth with three cusps.
type_taxon
Type species: Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758 (SD, Monfort, 1810).
Name
- Homonyms
- Buccinum Linnaeus 1758
- Buccinum