Busycotypus
Genus of gastropods
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Busycotypus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Busycotypinae .
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| Live Busycotypus canaliculatus for sale in a California seafood market | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Busyconidae |
| Subfamily: | Busycotypinae |
| Genus: | Busycotypus Wenz, 1943 |
| Type species | |
| Murex canaliculatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Busycotypus (Pyrofulgur) Hollister, 1958 | |
In the United States, these are commonly known as whelks.[1]
Species
- † Busycotypus calvertensis Petuch, 1988
- Busycotypus canaliculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the channeled whelk)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Busycotypus plagosus (Conrad, 1863): synonym of Fulguropsis plagosa (Conrad, 1863)
- Busycotypus spiratus (Conrad, 1863): synonym of Fulguropsis spirata (Lamarck, 1816)