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True Whelks
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True Whelks

Buccinidae

The Buccinidae are a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.

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10 branches of this family, most-observed first

Buccininae

subfamilyBuccininae

Neptuneinae

subfamilyNeptuneinae

Siphonaliinae

subfamilySiphonaliinae

Beringiinae

subfamilyBeringiinae

Volutopsiinae

subfamilyVolutopsiinae

Plicifusus

genusPlicifusus

Parancistrolepidinae

subfamilyParancistrolepidinae

Latisipho

genusLatisipho

Troschelia

genusTroschelia

Truncariinae

subfamilyTruncariinae

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

True Whelks in Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.31

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83329.