Burchia
Encyclopedia
Burchia is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Pseudomelatomidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea and part of the Neogastropoda...
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Species
Species within the genus Burchia include:- Burchia redondoensis (T. Burch, 1938)
- Burchia spectabilisBurchia spectabilisBurchia spectabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids....
Sysoev & Taylor, 1997