family Buccinidae

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Noun1.family Buccinidae - whelks
Buccinidae
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives
whelk - large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
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The spotted Babylon, Babylonia areolata Link 1807, is a gastropod in the order Neogastropoda, family Buccinidae (Habe 1965).
Morphology and histology of the central nervous system and ultrastructure of neurosecretory cells of female spotted babylon, Babylonia areolata
This species was formerly known as Cantharus (S.) capitanea (Berry, 1957) (Skoglund 1992) (family Buccinidae).
Gastropods and bivalves of commercial interest from the continental shelf of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico
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