The knobbed whelk is a species of very large predatory sea snail, called simply a whelk in the United States, a marine gastropod mollusk in the busycon whelk family Busyconidae.
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The knobbed whelk (Busycon carica) is a species of very large predatory sea snail, or in the US, a whelk, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Busyconidae, the busycon whelks.
2. Wikipedia: Knobbed whelk
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