Eburna Lamarck, 1801

A genus of large ancillariids with white to dark orange coloured shells. Apparently restricted to the southern Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province, the North Brazil Shelf province, and the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic province of the Tropical Atlantic realm. The genus is already recognised in the Miocene of Trinidad.

The operculum completely fills the aperture and has a sub-terminal nucleus.

Type species is the extant Eburna flavida Lamarck, 1801 (a junior synonym of Buccinum glabratum Linnaeus, 1758 (see below)).

RV 2166c. Venezuela, Paraguana Peninsula, Punta Fijo. Recent. Scale bar is 1 cm.

The followin extant species are recognised:

Species	Distribution
Eburna glabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)	Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba
Eburna balteata Sowerby, 1823	Aruba
Eburna lienardi (Bernardi, 1858)	Brazil

Fraussen & Stratmann (2013) discussed the usage of this genus-group taxon for species presently included in Babylonia Schlüter, 1838 (family Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971; originally introduced as a subfamily of the Buccinidae but nowadays considered to be a separate family in the superfamily Muricoidea). The extant species of Eburna were documented by Voskuil (1991).