Bucania groenlandica Peel 1991 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae

Full reference: J. S. Peel. 1991. Salpingostomatiform and related bellerophontacean gastropods from Greenland and the Baltic region. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 161:67-116

Belongs to Bucania according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ebbestad 1999, Ebbestad 1999, Peel 1991 and Peel 1991

Sister taxa: Bucania aotii, Bucania batchtownensis, Bucania bellapuncta, Bucania champlainensis, Bucania cornu, Bucania czekanowskii, Bucania dorsoplana, Bucania draboviensis, Bucania elliptica, Bucania erratica, Bucania gracillima, Bucania halli, Bucania minganensis, Bucania mudanensis, Bucania oelandica, Bucania peracuta, Bucania pilula, Bucania playfairi, Bucania pojetai, Bucania radiata, Bucania reticulata, Bucania robusta, Bucania rugatina, Bucania simulatrix, Bucania squamosus, Bucania stephnae, Bucania stigmosa, Bucania subangulata, Bucania sublata, Bucania suhaensis, Bucania sulcatina, Bucania tsuibonensis, Bucania ungava, Bucania witryana

Type specimen: MGUH 20.838, a shell. Its type locality is GGU 301318 & 301319, J.P.. Koch Fjord, which is in a Llandovery carbonate limestone in Greenland.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at GGU 301318 & 301319, J.P.. Koch Fjord

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.