Busycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs".[1]
Busycon comes from the Greek bousykon meaning large fig, from bous meaning cow and sykon meaning fig.[2]
^Bouchet, P. (2015). Busycon Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160183 on 2015-12-03
^"busycon". Merriam-Webster Unabridged. Archived from the original on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
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