Buccinanops is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinanopsidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks and the like.[1]

Buccinanops
Apertural view of a shell of Buccinanops deformis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinanopsidae
Genus: Buccinanops
d'Orbigny, 1841
Type species
Buccinum cochlidium
Dillwyn, 1817

Species edit

Species brought into synonymy
  • Buccinanops deformis (King, 1832):[2] synonym of Buccinastrum deforme (P. P. King, 1832)
  • Buccinastrum duartei Klappenbach, 1961: synonym of Buccinastrum duartei (Klappenbach, 1961) (original combination)
  • Buccinanops globulosus (Kiener, 1834): synonym of Buccinastrum deforme (P. P. King, 1832)
  • Buccinanops gradatus (Deshayes, 1844): synonym of Buccinanops cochlidium (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • Buccinanops lamarckii (Kiener, 1834): synonym of Buccinanops cochlidium (Dillwyn, 1817)
  • Buccinanops paytensis (Kiener, 1834): synonym of Buccinastrum paytense (Kiener, 1834)
  • Buccinanops uruguayensis (Pilsbry, 1897): synonym of Buccinastrum uruguayense (Pilsbry, 1897)
  • Buccinanops validus (Dunker, 1852): synonym of Pusionella valida (Dunker, 1852)
  • Buccinanops vittatus (Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of Bullia vittata (Linnaeus, 1767)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Bouchet, P. & Gofas, S. (2015). "Buccinanops d'Orbigny, 1841". In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531987 on 2016-04-28
  2. ^ Gómez-Espinosa, Catalina; Farinati, Ester & Aliotta, Salvador (2018). "Predatory evidence in the high-latitude cold-water gastropod Buccinanops deformis (King, 1832) from the Holocene littoral sandridges, Argentina, SW Atlantic" (PDF). Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 70: 293–305.

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