Buccinum
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Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]
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Buccinum | |
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A live individual of Buccinum undatum being held above the substrate | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Tudiclidae |
Genus: | Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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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.