- Animals
- ›Molluscs
- ›Gastropods
- ›Caenogastropods
- ›Neogastropods
- ›True Whelks and Allies
- ›True Whelks
- ›Buccininae
- ›Buccinum
Ladder Whelk
Buccinum scalariforme
Buccinum scalariforme, common name the silky buccinum, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
From the article Buccinum scalariforme on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The ovate shell is elongated, slightly turreted and pointed at the summit. The spire is composed of seven very convex rounded whorls, united by a shallow suture. Upon the whorls are regularly disposed longitudinal ribs or folds, crossed by numerous, fine, approximate striae, which, by their mutual intersection, cover the surface of the shell. The white aperture is slightly rounded. The thin outer lip is striated internally. The columella is arcuated and is covered by the inner lip. The coloring is whitish, sometimes ornamented with transverse bands.
Range & habitat
This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean; off Canada; in circum-arctic waters.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Buccinum scalariforme in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 215493.