Neobuccinum
Genus of gastropods
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Neobuccinum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Prosiphonidae, the true whelks.[1]
| Neobuccinum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Prosiphonidae |
| Genus: | Neobuccinum E. A. Smith, 1879 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinopsis eatoni E. A. Smith, 1875 | |
Characteristics
(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
Species within the genus Neobuccinum include:
- Neobuccinum eatoni E.A. Smith, 1875[3]
- Synonyms
- Neobuccinum praeclarum Strebel, 1908: synonym of Neobuccinum eatoni (E. A. Smith, 1875)
- Neobuccinum tenerum E. A. Smith, 1907: synonym of Probuccinum tenerum (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)
