Busycon pyrum

• Interesting Facts
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Busycon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. candelabrum (Splendid Whelk) · B. carica (Knobbed Whelk) · B. coarctatum (Turnip Whelk) · B. laeostomum (Snow Whelk) · B. pulleyi (Prickly Whelk) · B. sinistrum (Lightning Whelk)

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Further Reading

• An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names. [Brooklyn?]1954. url .
• Bulletins of American paleontology. Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url p. 151, p. 244.
• Check lists of the shells of North America Prepared for the Smithsonian institution, by Isaac Lea, P. P. Carpenter, Wm. Stimpson, W. G. Binney, and Temple Prime Washington, Smithsonian institution1860 url p. 6.
• Contributions to the Tertiary fauna of Florida, with especial reference to the Miocene silex-beds of Tampa and the Pliocene beds of the Calooshatchie River. Philadelphia, 1890-1903 url p. 1607, p. 1615.
• East coast marine shells: descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs / by Maxwell Smith. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Edwards Brothers, 1951, [c1937] url p. 125, p. 304.
• East coast marine shells; descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida. Ann Arbor, Mich., Edwards Brothers, Inc.[c1937] url p. 234.
• Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Chapel Hill, N.C. [etc.]Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society [etc.] url p. 143.
• Occasional papers on mollusks. 1 1951 Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1945- url p. 408.
• Palaeontographica Americana. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, url , , p. 100, p. 101, p. 108, p. 247, p. 249, p. 257, p. 290, p. 292, p. 302, p. 59, p. 99.
• Shell album / text, diagrams and photography by Helen S. O'Brien. Fort Myers, FL: O'Brien Color Studio, 1953. url p. 12.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 2 1862 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 6.
• South Carolina. Resources and population. Institutions and industries. Pub. by the State Board of Agriculture of South Carolina. Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, printers, 1883. url p. 301, p. 301.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 125, p. 207, p. 54, p. 61, p. 62, p. 65, p. 79, p. 89, p. 90.
• The archaeological use and distribution of Mollusca in the Maya lowlands New Orleans, 1969. url p. 15.
• Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 332.
• Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia, 1887-1927. url p. 1607, p. 1615.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2685770
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4017791

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