Neobuccinum

Neobuccinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Prosiphonidae
Genus:	Neobuccinum E. A. Smith, 1879
Type species
Buccinopsis eatoniE. A. Smith, 1875

Neobuccinum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Prosiphonidae, the true whelks. ^[1]

Characteristics

(Original description) The shell is bucciniform (shaped like a whelk). The wide siphonal canal is short. The operculum is somewhat oval and has a single spiral (the nucleus is barely terminal). At the margin near the nucleus it is slightly curved, concentrically striated with curved lines of growth. ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Neobuccinum include:

• Neobuccinum eatoni E.A. Smith, 1875 ^[3]

Synonyms

• Neobuccinum praeclarumStrebel, 1908: synonym of Neobuccinum eatoni(E. A. Smith, 1875)
• Neobuccinum tenerumE. A. Smith, 1907: synonym of Probuccinum tenerum (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)

References

1. Neobuccinum . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.
2. Smith, E.A. (1879). "Mollusca. In: An account of the petrological, botanical, and zoological collections made in Kerguelen's land and Rodriguez during the Transit of Venus Expeditions, carried out by order of her majesty's government in the years 1874-75". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 168: 167–168. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Neobuccinum eatoni (Smith, 1875) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.