Busycon perversum
Summary 6
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.
Habitat 7
Depth range based on 1 specimen in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 1 sample.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 13 - 13
Temperature range (°C): 23.658 - 23.658
Nitrate (umol/L): 0.289 - 0.289
Salinity (PPS): 35.556 - 35.556
Oxygen (ml/l): 4.852 - 4.852
Phosphate (umol/l): 0.132 - 0.132
Silicate (umol/l): 1.010 - 1.010
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Sources and Credits
- (c) Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Lightening_Welk_from_Smyrna_Dunes_Park_-_Flickr_-_Andrea_Westmoreland.jpg
- (c) Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Live_Lightening_Welk_at_Smyrna_Dunes_Park_-_Flickr_-_Andrea_Westmoreland.jpg
- (c) Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Lightening_Welk_from_Smyrna_Dunes_Park_-_Flickr_-_Andrea_Westmoreland_%281%29.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia Loves Art participant "The_Wookies", some rights reserved (CC BY), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/WLA_hmns_Busycon_perversum.jpg
- (c) Jarek Tuszynski, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Core_Banks_-_Whelk_-_1.JPG
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busycon_perversum
- (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/17346200
