Beringius
Genus of gastropods
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Beringius is a genus of large sea snails or true whelks, a marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
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| Apertural view of the shell of Beringius kenicottii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Subfamily: | Beringiinae |
| Genus: | Beringius Dall, 1887 |
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Beringius is the type genus of the subfamily Beringiinae.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species the following species with valid names are included within the genus Beringius :[1]
- Beringius aleuticus Dall, 1895
- Beringius behringii (Middendorff, 1848)
- Beringius bogasoni Warén & S. M. Smith, 2006
- Beringius crebricostatus (Dall, 1877)
- Beringius eyerdami A. G. Smith, 1959
- Beringius indentatus Dall, 1919
- Beringius kennicottii (Dall, 1871)
- Beringius marshalli Dall, 1919
- Beringius polynematicus Pilsbry, 1907
- Beringius stimpsoni (Gould, 1860)
- Beringius turtoni (Bean, 1834)
- Beringius undatus Dall, 1919
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