| Buccinidae (buccinum whelks)	 | 
	
		
	
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benthic; marine; depth range 78 - 910 m | 	
	
	
	
		| Northwest Pacific:  Kurile Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, South Sakhalin. | 
	
		
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	Shell up to 1.85 cm in length, thin, oval to elongate-oval, smooth. Axial sculpture only of thin growth lines, spiral sculpture absent. Operculum thin, small, less than a quarter of AL, with nucleus notably shifted towards lower outer edge. | 
	
	
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        Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)	
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