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Buccinum ochotense (A. T. von Middendorff, 1851)

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

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Buccinum ochotense

Author: Jan Delsing

Buccinum ochotense

Author: Jan Delsing

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Description

Testa lurida crassa, tamen leviuscula, fusiformi-conica; anfractibus subapplantis, plicis 10 vel 11, ad medium infractum maxime prominulis, transversim plicatis, longitudine confertim et aequaliter sulcato-lineatis, interstitiis sulcos Iatitudine ter saltern superantibus; labio calloso; labro magnopere incrassato; apertura semilunata, roseo-violacea. (Middendorff.)
Shell dull-colored, thick, nevertheless smoothish, fusiform-conical; whorls flattened, plications ten to twelve, most prominent on the middle of the whorl, transversely plicate, with length evenly sulcate-lineate, with the interstices crossing the ridges three times at least; lip greatly incrassate; aperture semilunate, roseate violet. (Translation.)
TYPE in Academy, St. Petersburg. Type locality, Arctic.
RANGE. Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, and the Okhotsk Sea.
Described as Tritonium ochotense.
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 ochotense Middendorff, 1848]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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