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dire whelk
Lirabuccinum dirum
Classification
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Tudiclidae
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Lirabuccinum dirum, commonly known as the dire whelk, the spindle shell or the spindle whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tudiclidae, the true whelks. It used to be known as Searlesia dira and Buccinum dirum before being transferred to the genus Lirabuccinum. Taxonomy and nomenclature The dire whelk was first described by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1846 as Buccinum dirum.
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Distribution
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 499United States of America · 412
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