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- Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. Snails in this genus are commonly called whelks, a name shared with several related and unrelated species. The common whelk Buccinum undatum is the most common representative of the genus in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
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The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks. [1] [2] The family includes more than 1500 species. Taxonomy. The family Busyconidae was for a time treated as a subfamily of Buccinidae called Busyconinae .
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Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. [1] Snails in this genus are commonly called whelks, a name shared with several related and unrelated species.
Overview. Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815. Common Name: True Whelks. Extant/Extinct. Key morphological features: The Buccinidae are small to medium sized gastropods with robust shells. The body whorl is relatively large with a medium-sized spire and wide aperture.
Biota. Animalia (Kingdom) Mollusca (Phylum) Gastropoda (Class) Caenogastropoda (Subclass) Neogastropoda (Order) Buccinoidea (Superfamily) Buccinidae (Family) Status. accepted. Rank. Family. Parent. Buccinoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Direct children (92) Subfamily Beringiinae A. N. Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975.
Whelks are a species-rich group of marine snails found in temperate waters. Although the number of whelk species is relatively large, the major groups belong to the family Buccinidae (the true whelks). However, the definition “whelk” is also applied to other marine gastropod species within several families of marine snails.
