''Busycotypus'' is a genus of very large
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
subfamily
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Busycotypinae .
In the United States, these are commonly known as
whelks.
[Bouchet, P. (2015). Busycotypus Wenz, 1943. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160190 on 2015-12-03]
Species
* † ''
Busycotypus calvertensis''
Petuch, 1988
* ''
Busycotypus canaliculatus''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758) (the
channeled whelk)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Busycotypus plagosus''
( Conrad, 1863): synonym of ''
Fulguropsis plagosa''
(Conrad, 1863)
* ''Busycotypus spiratus''
( Conrad, 1863): synonym of ''
Fulguropsis spirata''
(Lamarck, 1816)
References
* Hollister S.C. 1958, ''A review of the genus Busycon and its allies - Part I'': Palaeontographica Americana IV(28): 48–126, pls. 8-18 page(s): 99
* Petuch E.J. (1994). Atlas of Florida fossil shells. Evanston, Illinois: Chicago Spectrum Press. 394 pp., 20 figs., 100 pls.
page(s): 317
External links
* Jaxshell info at
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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Busycotypus,
Busyconidae