| Busyconinae | |
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| Three views of one shell of Busycon perversum with operculum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Subfamily: | Busyconinae Wade, 1917 (1867) |
| Genera | |
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Busyconinae is a taxonomic subfamily of very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, often known as the Busycon whelks, in the family Buccinidae.
Genera Busycon and Busycotypus were placed in Melongenidae.[1] Based on digestive system and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004)[1] was subbfamily Busyconinae moved to Buccinidae. The same placement is also in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) and the subfamily Busyconinae consists of two tribes:
Subfamily Busyconinae Wade, 1917 (1867)