Buccinanops monilifer, common name the collared buccinum, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
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| Five views of a shell of Buccinanops monilifer | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Buccinanopsidae |
| Genus: | Buccinanops |
| Species: | B. monilifer
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| Buccinanops monilifer (Kiener, 1834)
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Description
editThe size of the shell varies between 28 mm and 51 mm.
The smooth shell is ovate, oblong and fusiform. It is, whitish, slightly diaphanous, surrounded by two brown bands, interrupted by very prominent chestnut-colored spots upon the lowest whorl of the spire. A band of the same color, but less distinct, exists upon the other whorls. The spire is composed of seven or eight slightly angular whorls, the two or three lowest, crowned with a row of elongated, solid, pointed tubercles, pretty near to each other. The tubercles of the upper whorls are less apparent. The ovate aperture is yellowish. The base is pretty strongly emarginated. The thin outer lip is arched, marked internally by two transverse brown bands, which are very apparent externally.[2]
Distribution
editReferences
edit- ^ Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Buccinanops monilifer (Kiener, 1834). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532467 on 2016-04-30
- ^ Kiener (1840). General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers; Boston :W.D. Ticknor,1837 (described as Buccinum lamarckii)
- Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356.