Summary ³

The lightning whelk, scientific name Busycon contrarium, is an edible species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Buccinidae, the busycon whelks. This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It eats mostly bivalves.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=57620&lvl=0

Sources and Credits

1. (c) 2011 Marlo F. Krisberg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=396467&one=T
2. (c) Yolanda Villacampa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=iz&irn=8069
3. Adapted by matbio from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busycon_sinistrum
4. (c) Emily Rose Sharkey, all rights reserved

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