Neptunea antiqua

Neptunea antiqua
Neptunea antiqua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species: N. antiqua
Binomial name
Neptunea antiqua
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Neptunea antiqua, common name the red whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

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Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138920 on 17 April 2010.

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