🦋 Family

Busyconidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Busyconidae

Busycon carica, the knobbed whelk, is a large predatory North Atlantic sea snail and the state shell of New Jersey and Georgia.

Sinistrofulgur sinistrum, the lightning whelk, is a left-handed predatory marine gastropod that feeds mostly on bivalves.

Busycotypus canaliculatus, the channeled whelk, is an edible marine whelk native to the US East Coast, used to make traditional wampum.

Fulguropsis spirata (pear whelk) is an edible marine busycon whelk found from the Caribbean to the Western Gulf of Mexico.

Fulguropsis pyruloides is a common marine gastropod pear whelk native to the southeastern US Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

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Muricidae 88 species Conidae 53 species Nassariidae 23 species Volutidae 18 species Columbellidae 17 species Fasciolariidae 17 species Olividae 16 species Terebridae 13 species

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