Neptunea despecta

Neptunea despecta
Two views of a shell of one form of Neptunea despecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda

Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Neptunea
Species: N. despecta
Binomial name
Neptunea despecta
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Neptunea despecta is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

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