Buccinum lyperum
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| Buccinum lyperum | |
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| A shell of Buccinum lyperum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Genus: | Buccinum |
| Species: | B. lyperum |
| Binomial name | |
| 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"
The size of an adult shell varies between 51 mm and 75 mm.
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