''Lirabuccinum'' is a
genus
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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 ...
s, 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
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s in the
family
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Tudiclidae
The Tudiclidae are taxonomic family in the superfamily Buccinoidea 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 true whelks.
Species
Species within the genus ''Lirabuccinum'' listed by the
World Register of Marine Species
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Content
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include:
* ''
Lirabuccinum dirum''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Lirabuccinum fuscolabiatum''
(E. A. Smith, 1875)
* ''
Lirabuccinum hokkaidonis''
(Pilsbry, 1901)
* ''
Lirabuccinum musculus''
Callomon & Lawless, 2013
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Lirabuccinum constrictum''
(Dall, 1918): synonym of ''Lirabuccinum fuscolabiatum''
(E. A. Smith, 1875)
References
* Callomon P. & Lawless A. (2013) On the Recent members of the genus Lirabuccinum Vermeij, 1991 in the northern Pacific, with description of a new species (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). Venus 71(1-2): 13–27.
Tudiclidae
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