Buccinum strigillatum

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Buccinum strigillatum
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A shell of Buccinum strigillatum, the periostracum is peeling off of this specimen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Tudiclidae
Genus: Buccinum
Species:
B. strigillatum
Binomial name
Buccinum strigillatum
Dall, 1891 [1]
Synonyms

Buccinum fucanum Dall, 1907

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

Contents

The two subspecies are:

Description

The adult shell grows to a length of 50 mm. The white shell has seven hardly inflated whorls with a deep suture and a low spire. The shell is covered with a hirsute epidermis. The sculpture shows numerous narrow primary ridges with channeled interspaces. The oval to oblong aperture is not expanded and shows a deep sinus near the shoulder. [3]

The eggs are deposited on any hard substance, rock, shell, or sponge.

Distribution

This species can be found along the west coast of North America.

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References

  1. ↑ Dall, 1891. Proc. US Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 186; vol. 17, pi. 27, fig. 9, 1894
  2. ↑ Buccinum strigillatum Dall, 1891 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 20 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1924). The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Stanford University Press. p. 253. ISBN   978-0-8047-0987-3.


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