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Busycon
Sign in to saveBusycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs".
Species
whelks
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyBusyconidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,121
- With media
- 23
- Family
- Busyconidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, PRI, IGL-UNAM, USNM, UF
- Recorded in
- Jersey, United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Busyconinae
- Image
- Busycon-contrarium.jpg
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- Busycon
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- taxon name
- Busycon
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Shell description
- Behavior
- Eggs
- Human use
- Species
- References
Busycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs".
Busycon comes from the Greek bousykon meaning large fig, from bous meaning cow and sykon meaning fig.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Busycon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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