The Buccinanopsidae are a

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of large

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

s, often known as whelks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Buccinanopsidae Galindo, Puillandre, Lozouet & Bouchet, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1522366 on 2022-05-28

Genera

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Buccinanops ''Buccinanops'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinanopsidae, the ''Nassa'' mud snails or dog whelks and the like.Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. (2015). "''Buccinanops'' d'Orbigny, 1841". In: MolluscaBase (2015). Acc ...

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Buccinastrum ''Buccinastrum'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinanopsidae, the ''Nassa'' mud snails or dog whelks and the like.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Buccinastrum Pastorino & Simone, 2021. Accessed throug ...

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References

External links

Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353

Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. & Bouchet, P. (2021). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 1-69
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