Buccinum higuchii

Buccinum higuchii
Shell of Buccinum higuchii (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Buccinum
Species:	B. higuchii
Binomial name
Buccinum higuchii (Fraussen & Chino, 2009) [1]
Synonyms
Bathybuccinum higuchiiFraussen & Chino, 2009 (original combination)

Buccinum higuchii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

1. Fraussen & Chino (2009). The Venus 67 (3–4) : 145–157. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 17 April 2010.
2. Buccinum higuchii Fraussen & Chino, 2009 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.

• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225-383

External links

• Fraussen K. & Chino, M., 2009. - The deep-water genera Bathybuccinum and Ovulatibuccinum Golikov & Sirenko, 1988 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in Japan and adjacent waters, with description of three new species. Venus 67(3-4): 145-157
• Fraussen, K., Delongueville, C. & Scaillet, R. (2024). "First record of a Buccinum with "Bathybuccinum" affinities (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, with description of a new species". Novapex. 25 (4): 169.