Buccinum

Buccinum
	A live individual of Buccinum undatum being held above the substrate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Tudiclidae
Genus:	Buccinum; Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
	Buccinum undatum; Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
	Mada Jeffreys, 1867 (Invalid: junior homonym of Mada Mulsant, 1850; Mala and Madiella are replacement names); Madiella Wenz, 1943 (Replacement name for Mada Jeffreys, 1867); Mala Cossmann, 1901 (Replacement name for Mada Jeffreys, 1867, but itself a junior homonym of Mala Distant, 1854); Nassa (Buccinum) Linnaeus, 1758; Reticubuccinum Ito & Habe, 1980; Tritonellium Valenciennes, 1858 (unnecessary replacement name for Tritonium O. F. Müller, 1776, by Valenciennes considered a homonym of Tritonia Cuvier); Tritonium O. F. Müller, 1776; Tritonium (Buccinum) Linnaeus, 1758;

Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Snails in this genus are commonly called whelks, a name shared with several related and unrelated species. The common whelk Buccinum undatum is the most common representative of the genus in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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