Key: Family Buccinidae
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass
Prosobranchia
Order Neogastropoda
Suborder Rachiglossa
Taken primarily from Kozloff,
1987, 1996 p 223
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1a |
Dark lines between prominent and evenly spaced spiral ridges
showing through on the inside of the aperture; axial ribs nearly parallel
to the long axis of the shell, generally not extending to the body whorl
except in specimens less than 3 cm high (height to 5 cm; common intertidal
and shallow subtidal species) |
Searlesia dira |
1b |
No dark lines on the inside of the aperture (the spiral ridges are
almost microscopic, and there are no obvious dark lines between them);
axial ribs extending to the body whorl, and often somewhat irregular as
well as oblique to the long axis of the shell (height to about 7 cm; moderately
common subtidal species |
Buccinium plectrum |
Taxonomic Levels Represented
in This Key:
Searlesia dira
Buccinium plectrum
Not in Kozloff's (1996) key but now classified in Family Buccinidae:
Colus griseus
Buccinum thermophilum
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