Neobuccinum | |
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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]
(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 within the genus Neobuccinum include: