Busycon
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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 s
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Whelk
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Whelks or welks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species with a swirling, tapered shell. Many are eaten by humans, such as the common whelk of the North Atlantic. Most whelks belong to the fam
Busycon
…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…
Several different species of large whelks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks, on sale at a fish market in Japan
A whelk at Miller's Point near Cape Town
Skewered whelks from Japan