Buccinidae, Rafinesque, 1815

Luca, Javier Di & Zelaya, Diego G., 2019, Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity, Zootaxa 4544 (1), pp. 41-78 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:211842AA-6C98-425B-9377-1AF0DC78C893

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934650

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA87AC-FFFB-FFA6-FF46-FD94FA022AAF

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Plazi

scientific name

Buccinidae
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Buccinidae View in CoL sp.

Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4

Examined material. 4 an. and 12 sh. (MACN-In 40686).

Description. Shell height to 4.6 mm; fusiform, solid. Protoconch large, smooth, of 2.25 markedly convex whorls. Teleoconch of up to 3.75 whorls, slightly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 60% of total shell height. Suture impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 12 to 14 strong axial ribs and 3 or 4 wide spiral cords per whorl, which produce large beads at their intersections. Axial sculpture vanishing at the base, which is delimited by a smooth cord, and sculptured with 7 to 9 additional cords. Aperture ovate, interior white; columellar callus thick; siphonal canal short, slightly oblique, wide. Operculum ovate, with subterminal nucleus; pale brown, translucent.

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