“Genus ARGOBUCCINUM Herrmannsen, 1846
Type (OD) Ranella argus Gmelin = Murex argus Gmelin, 1791
Shell of moderate to large size, solid, ovate, with a capacious body-whorl and aperture. Varices few, low and broadly rounded. Sculpture of revolving series of primary and secondary granose or smooth cords. Outer-lip thin edged, but externally variced and internally dentate; anterior canal short; inner-lip plicate, and with a very strong parietal tubercle, that constricts the weak posterior canal. Operculum thin, horny, with a latero-terminal nucleus, the outer edge ragged, as in the thaisids. Periostracum thick, lamellose and pile-like. Southern Ocean; Chile, Magellanic Region generally, South Africa New Zealand and southern Australia.”
(Powell, 1979: 166)
Argobuccinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[2]
Species within the genus Argobuccinum include:
Argobuccinum is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.
