The Busyconidae are
taxonomic family
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of large
sea snails, often known as
whelk
Whelk (also known as scungilli) is a common name applied to various kinds of sea snail. Although a number of whelks are relatively large and are in the family Buccinidae (the true whelks), the word ''whelk'' is also applied to some other marin ...
s.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Busyconidae Wade, 1917 (1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=862828 on 2022-10-26]
Subfamilies
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Busyconinae
The Busyconinae are taxonomic subfamily of large sea snails, often known as whelks. The name "whelk" also refers to Buccinidae. Busyconinae consists of Recent and fossil species.Bouchet, P. (2015). Busyconinae Wade, 1917 (1867). In: MolluscaB ...
Wade, 1917 (1867)
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Busycotypinae Petuch, 1994
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Busycotypus
''Busycotypus'' is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Busycotypinae .
In the United States, these are commonly known as whelks.Bouchet, P. (2015). Busycotypus Wenz, 1943. In: MolluscaBase (2015). A ...
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Wenz, 1943
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Fulguropsis''
Marks, 1950
References
* Wade, B. (1917). An Upper Cretaceous Fulgur. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 43: 293-297.
* Petuch E.J., Myers R.F. & Berschauer D.P. (2015). The living and fossil Busycon whelks: Iconic mollusks of eastern North America. San Diego Shell Club. viii + 195 pp
External links
Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. N. & Bouchet, P. (2022) (nomenclatural availability: 2021). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194: 789-857
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