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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Mollusks
  4. Gastropods
  5. Neogastropods
  6. True Whelks and Allies

superfamily

True Whelks and Allies

Buccinoidea

Includes
67 native 3 introduced 28 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Dove Snails 22 native
  • Nassa Mud Snails 12 native
  • Tulip and Spindle Shells 10 native
  • Whelks 8 native
  • True Whelks 5 native
  • Pisaniidae 4 native
  • Melongenidae 2 native
  • Colidae 1 native
  • Austrosiphonidae 1 native
  • Tudiclidae 1 native
  • Macron 1 native
  • Prodotiidae
  • Colubrariidae
  • Dolicholatiridae
  • Cominellidae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native true whelks and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Knobbed Whelk Busycon carica 6,703 observations
  • Kellet's Whelk Kelletia kelletii 2,909 observations
  • Carinate Dovesnail Alia carinata 1,684 observations
  • Florida Pear Whelk Fulguropsis pyruloides 1,205 observations
  • Variegate Amphissa Amphissa versicolor 915 observations
  • Lean Western Nassa Nassarius mendicus 794 observations
  • Livid Macron Macron lividus 228 observations
  • Little Phos Bailya parva 2 observations

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