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species

Buccinum lyperium W. H. Dall, 1919

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Buccinidae - Whelks »  genus Buccinum

Scientific synonyms

Buccinum lyperum Dall, 1919

Images

Buccinum lyperium

Author: Dall, W.H.

Buccinum lyperium

Author: Alexeiev

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Distribution

Arctic Russia. Eastern coast of Kamtschatka.
Dall, W.H., 1925. Illustrations of unfigured types of shells in the collection of the United States National Museum.
Shell has a strongly constricted suture and about six rotund whorls, with the axial sculpture largely obsolete and the periostracum a very dark olive. In its other characters it agrees with the normal type of the species. Long., 52; diam., 32 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 225611. Type locality, southwestern Bering Sea.
RANGE. Southwestern Bering Sea, in 100 fathoms.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Buccinum lyperium Dall, 1919]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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