Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Buccinidae > Subfamily Buccininae

Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tritonium*	O. F. Müller, 1776	synonym
*Tritonium (Buccinum)*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Children

Buccinum abyssorum A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1884
Buccinum angulosum Gray, 1839
Buccinum belcheri Reeve, 1855
Buccinum ciliatum (O. Fabricius, 1780)
Buccinum cinctum Montagu, 1803
Buccinum conoideum G. O. Sars, 1878
Buccinum costulatum Brocchi, 1814
Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789
Buccinum donovani J. E. Gray, 1839
Buccinum finmarkianum Verkrüzen, 1875
Buccinum fragile Verkrüzen, 1878
Buccinum glaciale Linnaeus, 1761
Buccinum humphreysianum Bennett, 1824
Buccinum hydrophanum Hancock, 1846
Buccinum kjennerudae Bouchet & Warén, 1985
Buccinum maltzani Pfeffer, 1886
Buccinum micropoma Thorson, 1944
Buccinum nivale Friele, 1882
Buccinum oblitum Sykes, 1911
Buccinum palssoni Fraussen, Delongueville & Scaillet, 2024
Buccinum parvulum Verkrüzen, 1875
Buccinum polare Gray, 1839
Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878
Buccinum scalariforme Møller, 1842
Buccinum superangulare Thorson & Oskarsson, 1962
Buccinum terraenovae (Mörch, 1869)
Buccinum tottenii W. Stimpson, 1865
Buccinum tumidulum G. O. Sars, 1878
Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: wulken sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

French: buccins sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

Japanese: エゾバイ属

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
subsequent type designation	Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137701