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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Source Wikidata: Knobbed Whelk
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikidata: Knobbed Whelk
- Wikidata Q310059, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikipedia 'Knobbed whelk': a species of very large predatory sea snail
- Child Taxon Of: Gastropoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source2. Wikipedia: Knobbed whelk
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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.
3. Wikipedia: Knobbed whelk
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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