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Buccinum
Sign in to saveBuccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Species
buccins
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyBuccinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded77,708
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,537
- With media
- 162
- Family
- Buccinidae
- Collections
- PRI, SDNHM, UCMP, NHMUK, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Canada
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- Species
- Species brought into synonymy
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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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