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Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815 
AphiaID: 149

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Caenogastropoda > Neogastropoda > Buccinoidea
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Buccinoidea
Source  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47(1-2): 1-397. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch wulken  [details]
English buccinum whelks  [details]
English whelks  [details]
French buccinidés  [details]
Swedish valthornssnäckor  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Genus Aulacofusus Dall, 1918
Genus Beringius Dall, 1887
Genus Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Busycon Röding, 1798
Genus Busycotypus Wenz, 1943
Genus Colus Röding, 1798
Genus Mohnia Friele, 1879
Genus Neptunea Röding, 1798
Genus Plicifusus Dall, 1902
Genus Pyrulofusus Mörch, 1857
Genus Retifusus Dall, 1916
Genus Retimohnia McLean, 1995
Genus Turrisipho Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912
Genus Volutopsius Mörch, 1857

Subfamily Buccininae Rafinesque, 1815 (alternate representation)
Environment marine
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To GenBank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Besides Colus gracilis (Da Costa, 1778), Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758) and Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758, possiblly other (sub-fossil or non-native) Buccinid species occur at the Belgian coast as well. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2009-02-02 11:06:43Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2010-10-10 10:26:13Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Buccinidae. Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149 on 2013-06-19
  
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