Neptunea heros

Neptunea heros
Neptunea heros
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species: N. heros
Binomial name
Neptunea heros
Gray, 1850
Synonyms[1]
  • Fusus fornicatus normalis (f) Aurivillius, C.W.S., 1885
  • Neptunea middendorffiana MacGinitie, 1959
  • Neptunea tabularis Dall, W.H., 1919

Neptunea heros, common name : the heros neptune, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.[1]

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Description

The soze of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 175 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and along Canada; it is also circum-Arctic and can be found along Japan and Korea

References

  1. ^ a b Neptunea heros .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254479 on 26 April 2011.
  • MacGinitie N. (1959) Marine Mollusca of Point Barrow, Alaska. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 109: 59-208. [Published 18 September 1959] page(s): 124
  • Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.

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