Bifurcium
Genus of gastropods
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Bifurcium is a genus of sea snails in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1] There is one species in the genus, Bifurcium bicanaliferum. The type species was found off the Galapagos Islands.
| Bifurcium | |
|---|---|
| Shell of Bifurcium bicanaliferum (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Columbellidae |
| Genus: | Bifurcium P. Fischer, 1884 |
| Species: | B. bicanaliferum |
| Binomial name | |
| Bifurcium bicanaliferum (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) | |