Buccinum lyperum
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| A shell of Buccinum lyperum | |
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| Subfamily: | Buccininae
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| Species: | B. lyperum
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| Buccinum lyperum W. H. Dall, 1919
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Buccinum lyperum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1] A few authors use the epithet "lyperium"
Description[]
The size of an adult shell varies between 51 mm and 75 mm.
Distribution[]
This species is found in the North Pacific Ocean along the Bering Sea and Kamchatka.
References[]
- ^ Buccinum lyperum Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2011.
- Baily J.L. 1961. A new name for Buccinum tenue, Gray, 1839 preoccupied. Veliger, 3 (4): 93–94.
- Kosuge S. 1972. Illustrations of type specimens of molluscs described by William Healey Dall; Tokyo, 65 p.
- D. O. Alexeyev, A. V. Gornichnykh , New gastropod species Buccinum frausseni sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Buccinidae), with comments on intraspecific structure of Buccinum scalariforme Beck in Møller, 1842; Ruthenica, 2009, vol. 19, No. 1: 1-18
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- Buccinidae
- Taxa named by William Healey Dall
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