About Buccinanops cochlidium (Dillwyn, 1817)
Buccinanops cochlidium (Dillwyn, 1817) has a shell size that ranges between 30 mm and 112 mm. Its shell is elongated, ovate-conical, smooth, and shining. The base color is reddish yellow, scattered with longitudinal brown-red flames. A transverse band of the same brown-red color surrounds the base of the shell. The elongated spire is made of eight whorls, which are slightly angular at their upper part and very slightly convex. The earliest whorls are longitudinally plaited. The aperture is ovate, whitish, and strongly emarginated at its base. The outer lip is thin, while the columella is smooth and yellowish. This attractive species is especially notable for its turreted whorls, and most distinctively for an unusual deposit of whiter calcareous matter found on the upper portion of the shell's lower whorls. This is a marine species distributed along the coast from Central Brazil to Argentina.
