🦋 Family

Buccinidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Buccinidae

Neptunea decemcostata, the New England neptune, is Massachusetts' state shell, sometimes treated as a subspecies of Neptunea lyrata.

Buccinum undatum, the common edible true whelk, is a Northern Atlantic marine gastropod fished widely for food.

Burnupena papyracea is an endemic marine gastropod found from Namibia to Hermanus, South Africa.

Related Families

Muricidae 88 species Conidae 53 species Nassariidae 23 species Volutidae 18 species Columbellidae 17 species Fasciolariidae 17 species Olividae 16 species Terebridae 13 species

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