''Buccinum pulchellum'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
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 ...
, a marine
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
in the
family
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Buccinidae
The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Buccinidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Ac ...
, the true whelks.
Not to be confounded with:
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
Blainville, 1829: synonym of ''
Zafrona pulchella''
(Blainville, 1829)
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
Calcara, 1845: synonym of ''
Mazatlania cosentini
''Mazatlania cosentini'', common name the false auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.Bouchet, P.; Monsecour, K. (2015). Mazatlania cosentini. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed ...
''
(Philippi, 1836)
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
C. B. Adams, 1851: synonym of ''
Decipifus sixaolus''
Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in European waters.
References
External links
Sars, G.O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1–34 & I-XVIII
Buccinidae
Gastropods described in 1878
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