Neptunea polycostata

Neptunea polycostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.^[1]

Neptunea polycostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Buccinidae
Genus:	Neptunea
Species:	N. polycostata
Binomial name
Neptunea polycostata Scarlato in Galkin et Scarlato, 1955
Synonyms
Neptunea polycostata polycostata Galkin & Scarlato, 1955 Neptunea satura var. polycostata Galkin & Scarlato, 1955 (basionym)

There is one subspecies: Neptunea polycostata aino Fraussen & Terryn, 2007 (synonym: Neptunea polycostata var. sculpturata Golikov, 1963)

Description

Distribution

Cold northern seas, Sakhalin Island, and Hokkaido, Japan.