splendid whelk

Lindafulgur candelabrum

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Busyconidae

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".

Distribution

splendid whelk — (c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionBusycon, Wikipedia contributors

splendid whelk

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