Buccinidae (buccinum whelks) |
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benthic; marine; depth range 78 - 910 m |
Northwest Pacific: Kurile Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, South Sakhalin. |
Shell up to 1.85 cm in length, thin, oval to elongate-oval, smooth. Axial sculpture only of thin growth lines, spiral sculpture absent. Operculum thin, small, less than a quarter of AL, with nucleus notably shifted towards lower outer edge. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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