Buccinumn.
/ˈbʌksɪnəm/ Zoology.
The genus of gasteropod Molluscs represented by the whelk.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Buccinidae > genus or member of genus Buccinum (whelks)
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 258 The lesse shell called Buccinum, fashioned like vnto that horn or cornet..hath a round back.
1854 P. H. Gosse Nat. Hist.: Mollusca 182 The buccinum..was observed to perforate a small hole in the shell.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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