Buccinum lyperum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1] A few authors use the epithet "lyperium"
| Buccinum lyperum | |
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| A shell of Buccinum lyperum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Tudiclidae |
| Genus: | Buccinum |
| Species: | B. lyperum
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| Binomial name | |
| Buccinum lyperum W. H. Dall, 1919
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Description edit
The size of an adult shell varies between 51 mm and 75 mm.
Distribution edit
This species is found in the North Pacific Ocean along the Bering Sea and Kamchatka.
References edit
- ^ Buccinum lyperum Dall, 1919. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 19 June 2011.
- 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
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