| Buccinulum Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Recent, | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Buccinulum vittatum vittatum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Tudiclidae |
| Genus: | Buccinulum Deshayes, 1830 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Murex lineatus Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae. [3] [4] [2]
Buccinulum are small to medium-sized marine snails. [5] [6] Species vary significantly in shell sculpture and colouration [5] and can be difficult to distinguish from one another. [6]
The majority of extant and fossil species are from New Zealand. [7] [8] Most species are commonly abundant within the intertidal and shallow subtidal zone of New Zealand beaches. [5] [6]
Buccinulum is closely related to the genus Aeneator . [4] [6]
Cladogram of Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae [4] [3] [9] [10]
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Species within the genus Buccinulum include: