Busycon

Taxobox
name = "Busycon"

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image_caption = Lightning whelk, "Busycon contrarium"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Melongenidae
subfamilia = Busyconinae
genus = "Busycon"
genus_authority = Röding, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Busycon" is a genus of very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Melongenidae. This genus of snails are commonly known as whelks or "Busycon" whelks.

As a food source in the USA, the meat of these whelks is sometimes referred to as "scungilli".

pecies

* "Busycon canaliculatus" (Channeled whelk)
* "Busycon candelabrum" (Splendid whelk)
* "Busycon carica" (Knobbed whelk)
* "Busycon coarctatum"
* "Busycon contrarium"
* "Busycon laeostomum" (Snow whelk)
* "Busycon lyonsi"
* "Busycon perversum" (Lightning whelk)
* "Busycon pulleyi" (Prickly whelk)
* "Busycon pyrum"
* "Busycon spiratum"