WoRMS taxon details
Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789
138862 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138862)
accepted
Species
Buccinum bromsi Hägg, 1904 · unaccepted (synonym)
Buccinum cyaneum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 · unaccepted (Subspecies not recognized)
Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882 · unaccepted
Buccinum groenlandicum (Mörch, 1857) · unaccepted (junior secondary homonym of...)
junior secondary homonym of Buccinum groenlandicum Hancock, 1846
Buccinum groenlandicum Chemnitz, 1788 · unaccepted > unavailable name (published in a work rejected by...)
published in a work rejected by ICZN, Direction 1
Buccinum groenlandicum var. patula G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted
Buccinum perdix (Mörch, 1870) · unaccepted (synonym)
Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Buccinum striatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (primary homonym of Buccinum...)
primary homonym of Buccinum striatum Müller, 1774, B. striatum Pennant, 1777 and others
Buccinum tanquarui F. C. Baker, 1919 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846 · unaccepted (synonym)
Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tritonium (Buccinum) tenebrosum (Hancock, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tritonium (Fusus) tenebrosum Hancock, 1846 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Tritonium groenlandicum Mörch, 1857 · unaccepted
Tritonium groenlandicum var. perdix Mörch, 1870 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Buccinum cyaneum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 accepted as Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 (Subspecies not recognized)
- Variety Buccinum cyaneum var. moerchianum (P. Fischer, 1859) accepted as Buccinum baerii (Middendorff, 1848) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. <em>Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke.</em> volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 266 [details]
page(s): 266 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138862 on 2026-05-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. <em>Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke.</em> volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 266 [details]
original description (of Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
original description (of Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882) Verrill, A. E. (1882). Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region, during the past ten years. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 5(2): 447-587, pls 42-44, 57-58 [May-July]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35718507
page(s): 397; note: based on Buccinum ciliatum Fabricius, 1780 as misidentified in Gould (1841: 307, fig. 209) [details]
original description (of Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846) Hancock A. 1846. A list of shells dredged on the West Coast of Davis's Strait; with notes and descriptions of eight new species. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i>, 18: 323-338, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319632
page(s): 327, pl. 5, figs. 1, 2 [details]
original description (of Buccinum groenlandicum var. patula G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 260 [details]
original description (of Buccinum bromsi Hägg, 1904) Hägg R. (1904-1905). Mollusca und Brachiopoda gesammelt von der schwedischen Polarexpedition nach Spitzbergen, dem nordöstlichen Grönland und Jan Mayen im Jahre 1900. <i>Arkiv for Zoologi</i>, 2(2): 1-66 [1904]; 2(13): 1-136 [1905]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6393420 [details]
original description (of Tritonium groenlandicum Mörch, 1857) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1857). <i>Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr, Prodromus fauna molluscorum grønlandicae</i>. In Rink, H.J. (Ed.) <i>Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse ad Grönland</i>. Vol. 4. Rink, Copenhagen. pp. 75–100. <em>Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein.</em> 75-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28838318
page(s): 84 [details]
original description (of Tritonium groenlandicum var. perdix Mörch, 1870) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1870). Fauna Molluscorum Islandiae. Oversigt over Islands Blöddyr. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.</em> 1868 (11-13): 185-229. (Published 21 January 1870)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35852689 [details]
original description (of Buccinum perdix (Mörch, 1870)) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1870). Fauna Molluscorum Islandiae. Oversigt over Islands Blöddyr. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.</em> 1868 (11-13): 185-229. (Published 21 January 1870)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35852689 [details]
original description (of Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Buccinum tanquarui F. C. Baker, 1919) Baker, F. C. (1919). Mollusca of the Crocer Land expedition to northwest Greenland and Grinnell Land. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 41: 479-516., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044093305266&seq=517
page(s): 511, pl. 26, fig. 1-2, 27, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Buccinum striatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 †) Thomson, T. (1835). On a deposit of recent marine shells at Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire. <em>Records of General Science.</em> 1: 131-136., available online at https://archive.org/details/recordsofgeneral01lond/page/130 [details]
original description (of Buccinum groenlandicum Chemnitz, 1788) Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). <i>Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet</i>. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4 [1780]: [xxvii] + 344 pp. + 1 (errata), pl. 122-159; vol. 5 [1781]: [xxiv] + 324 p., pl. 160-193; vol. 6 [1782]: [xii] + 375 pp., pl. 1–36; vol. 7 [1784], [xii] + 356 pp., pl.. 37–69; vol. 8 [1785], xvi + 372 pp., pl. 70–102; vol. 9(1) [1786], xii + 151 pp., pl. 103–116; vol. 9(2) [1786], [xxvi] + 194 pp., pl. 117–136; vol. 10 [1788], [xx] + 376 pp., pl. 137–173; vol. 11 [1795], [xx] + 310 pp., pl. 174–213 [Work placed on the Official Index by ICZN Direction 1 (1954)] [volumes 1-3 are by F.H.W. Martini]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760
page(s): vol. 10, p. 182, pl. 152 fig. 1448 [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
page(s): 266 [details]
original description (of Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
original description (of Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882) Verrill, A. E. (1882). Catalogue of marine Mollusca added to the fauna of the New England region, during the past ten years. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 5(2): 447-587, pls 42-44, 57-58 [May-July]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35718507
page(s): 397; note: based on Buccinum ciliatum Fabricius, 1780 as misidentified in Gould (1841: 307, fig. 209) [details]
original description (of Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846) Hancock A. 1846. A list of shells dredged on the West Coast of Davis's Strait; with notes and descriptions of eight new species. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History</i>, 18: 323-338, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2319632
page(s): 327, pl. 5, figs. 1, 2 [details]
original description (of Buccinum groenlandicum var. patula G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 260 [details]
original description (of Buccinum bromsi Hägg, 1904) Hägg R. (1904-1905). Mollusca und Brachiopoda gesammelt von der schwedischen Polarexpedition nach Spitzbergen, dem nordöstlichen Grönland und Jan Mayen im Jahre 1900. <i>Arkiv for Zoologi</i>, 2(2): 1-66 [1904]; 2(13): 1-136 [1905]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6393420 [details]
original description (of Tritonium groenlandicum Mörch, 1857) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1857). <i>Fortegnelse over Grønlands Bløddyr, Prodromus fauna molluscorum grønlandicae</i>. In Rink, H.J. (Ed.) <i>Grönland Geographisk og Statistisk Beskrevet. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse ad Grönland</i>. Vol. 4. Rink, Copenhagen. pp. 75–100. <em>Kjøbenhavn, Louis Klein.</em> 75-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28838318
page(s): 84 [details]
original description (of Tritonium groenlandicum var. perdix Mörch, 1870) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1870). Fauna Molluscorum Islandiae. Oversigt over Islands Blöddyr. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.</em> 1868 (11-13): 185-229. (Published 21 January 1870)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35852689 [details]
original description (of Buccinum perdix (Mörch, 1870)) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1870). Fauna Molluscorum Islandiae. Oversigt over Islands Blöddyr. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn.</em> 1868 (11-13): 185-229. (Published 21 January 1870)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35852689 [details]
original description (of Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Buccinum tanquarui F. C. Baker, 1919) Baker, F. C. (1919). Mollusca of the Crocer Land expedition to northwest Greenland and Grinnell Land. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 41: 479-516., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044093305266&seq=517
page(s): 511, pl. 26, fig. 1-2, 27, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Buccinum striatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 †) Thomson, T. (1835). On a deposit of recent marine shells at Dalmuir, Dumbartonshire. <em>Records of General Science.</em> 1: 131-136., available online at https://archive.org/details/recordsofgeneral01lond/page/130 [details]
original description (of Buccinum groenlandicum Chemnitz, 1788) Chemnitz, J. H. (1780-1795). <i>Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet</i>. Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nürnberg. Vol. 4 [1780]: [xxvii] + 344 pp. + 1 (errata), pl. 122-159; vol. 5 [1781]: [xxiv] + 324 p., pl. 160-193; vol. 6 [1782]: [xii] + 375 pp., pl. 1–36; vol. 7 [1784], [xii] + 356 pp., pl.. 37–69; vol. 8 [1785], xvi + 372 pp., pl. 70–102; vol. 9(1) [1786], xii + 151 pp., pl. 103–116; vol. 9(2) [1786], [xxvi] + 194 pp., pl. 117–136; vol. 10 [1788], [xx] + 376 pp., pl. 137–173; vol. 11 [1795], [xx] + 310 pp., pl. 174–213 [Work placed on the Official Index by ICZN Direction 1 (1954)] [volumes 1-3 are by F.H.W. Martini]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43760
page(s): vol. 10, p. 182, pl. 152 fig. 1448 [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
Other
additional source
Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian].
page(s): 182 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Buccinum cyaneum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (87 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications) (from synonym Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842)
To Conchology (Buccinum cyaneum)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Buccinum cyaneum)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Malacopics (Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, Mehamn, live, underneath ...
To Malacopics (Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, Mehamn, live, underneath ...
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum bromsi Hägg, 1904)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum perdix (Mörch, 1870))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Buccinum cyaneum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) (from synonym Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (87 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications) (from synonym Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842)
To Conchology (Buccinum cyaneum)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Buccinum cyaneum)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Malacopics (Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, Mehamn, live, underneath ...
To Malacopics (Buccinum cyaneum Bruguière, 1789 Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, Mehamn, live, underneath ...
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum pulchellum G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum undulatum Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum tenebrosum Hancock, 1846)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum bromsi Hägg, 1904)
To PESI (from synonym Buccinum perdix (Mörch, 1870))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Buccinum gouldii A. E. Verrill, 1882)
To ITIS
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