The Buccinanopsidae are a
taxonomic
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family
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of large
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s, often known as
whelk
Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, tapered shell. Many are eaten by humans, such as the common whelk of the North Atlantic. Most whelks belong to the family Buccinidae and are known as "true whelks." Othe ...
s in the superfamily
Buccinoidea
Buccinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of very small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.
This superfamily is in the clade Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). It had been p ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Buccinanopsidae Galindo, Puillandre, Lozouet & Bouchet, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1522366 on 2022-05-28
]
Genera
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Buccinanops
''Buccinanops'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinanopsidae, the '' Nassa'' mud snails or dog whelks and the like.Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. (2015). "''Buccinanops'' d'Orbigny, 1841". In: MolluscaBase (2015). ...
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d'Orbigny, 1841
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Buccinastrum
''Buccinastrum'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
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Pastorino & Simone, 2021
References
External links
Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. & Bouchet, P. (2021). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1-69
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Buccinoidea