Biology:Buccinum lyperum

Short description: Species of gastropod

Buccinum lyperum
A shell of Buccinum lyperum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Tudiclidae
Genus:	Buccinum
Species:	B. lyperum
Binomial name
Buccinum lyperum W. H. Dall, 1919
Synonyms
Buccinum tenue f. lyperum Dall, 1919 Buccinum tenue lyperum Dall, 1925 Buccinum elatior var. lyperum: Golikov, 1980 Buccinum rhodium Alexeyev, 2002 non Dall, 191 Buccinum rhodium var. lyperum Alexeyev, 2002

Buccinum lyperum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. A few authors use the epithet "lyperium"

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 51 mm and 75 mm.

Distribution

This species is found in the North Pacific Ocean along the Bering Sea and Kamchatka.

References

• Baily J.L. 1961. A new name for Buccinum tenue, Gray, 1839 preoccupied. Veliger, 3 (4): 93–94.
• Kosuge S. 1972. Illustrations of type specimens of molluscs described by William Healey Dall; Tokyo, 65 p.
• D. O. Alexeyev, A. V. Gornichnykh , New gastropod species Buccinum frausseni sp. nov. (Gastropoda, Buccinidae), with comments on intraspecific structure of Buccinum scalariforme Beck in Møller, 1842; Ruthenica, 2009, vol. 19, No. 1: 1-18

External links

• Gastropods.com : Buccinum tenue tenue; accessed : 19 June 2011

Wikidata ☰ Q4982441 entry