Buccinaria Explained

Buccinaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Species

Species within the genus Buccinaria include:

• † Buccinaria guacoldae Nielsen, 2003
• † Buccinaria hoheneggeri Kittl, 1887
• Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
• Buccinaria loochooensis MacNeil, 1961
• Buccinaria martini (Koperberg, 1931)
• Buccinaria nodosa Morassi & Bonfitto, 2010
• † Buccinaria okinawa MacNeil, 1960
• Buccinaria pendula Bouchet & Sysoev, 1997
• Buccinaria pygmaea Bouchet & Sysoev, 1997
• Buccinaria urania (Smith E. A., 1906)

There are also many extinct species from Tertiary strata in Europe and Eastern Asia.

Species brought into synonymy:

• Buccinaria abbreviata (Schepman, 1913): synonym of Acanthodaphne abbreviata (Schepman, 1913)
• Buccinaria javanensis van Regteren Altena, 1950: synonym of Buccinaria urania (E. A. Smith, 1906)
• Buccinaria koperbergi Martin, 1933: synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
• Buccinaria retifera Martin, 1933: synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)
• Buccinaria teramachii (Kuroda, 1952): synonym of Buccinaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931)

References

• Bouchet P. & Sysoev A. (1997) Revision of the Recent species of Buccinaria (Gastropoda: Conoidea), a genus of deep-water turrids of Tethyan origin. Venus, Japanese Journal of Malacology, 56:93-119
• Morassi & Bonfitto, New raphitomine gastropods (Gastropoda: Conidae: Raphitominae) from the South-West Pacific

External links

• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
• Tucker . J.K. . 2004 . Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) . PDF . Zootaxa . 682 . 1–1295 .
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae