Given a sentence in Japanese, provide an equivalent paraphrased translation in English that retains the same meaning both through the translation and the paraphrase.

5
Although five issues of the series were printed , the project was finished without any of them being cancelled .

As an official Soviet artist , his work was widely exhibited and well received .

Neptunea alexeyeviBuccinidaen whe
Neptunea alexeyevi is a species of sea snail , a true gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae , the marine whelks .