Neptunea pribiloffensis

Neptunea pribiloffensis
Apertural view of a shell of Neptunea pribiloffensis also showing the operculum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species: N. pribiloffensis
Binomial name
Neptunea pribiloffensis
W. H. Dall, 1919

Neptunea pribiloffensis, common name the Pribilof whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Abapertural view of the shell of Neptunea pribiloffensis.

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