''Buccinum pulchellum'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
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 ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Not to be confounded with:
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
Blainville, 1829: synonym of ''
Zafrona pulchella''
(Blainville, 1829)
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
Calcara, 1845: synonym of ''
Mazatlania cosentini''
(Philippi, 1836)
* ''Buccinum pulchellum''
C. B. Adams, 1851: synonym of ''
Decipifus sixaolus''
Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Description
Distribution
This marine species occurs in European waters.
References
External links
Sars, G.O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania. xiii + 466 pp., pls 1–34 & I-XVIII
Buccinidae
Gastropods described in 1878
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