Busycotypus
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| Live Busycotypus canaliculatus for sale in a California seafood market | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Buccinidae |
| Subfamily: | Busyconinae |
| Tribe: | Busycotypini |
| Genus: | Busycotypus Wenz, 1943 |
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Busycotypus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae. In the USA, these are commonly known as whelks.
Subgenera and species
Subgenera and species within the genus Busycotypus are as follows:
- Subgenus Busycotypus Wenz, 1943
- Busycotypus canaliculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the channeled whelk)
- Subgenus Fulguropsis (Marks, 1950)