Malacology
Malacology is the study of mollusks. This includes animals like octopus, snails, slugs, and clams. It is the second largest phylum of animals, making them one of the most successful groups on the planet. There are over 80,000 described species of mollusks with many more left to be discovered. Mullusca is composed of 8 recognized classes including Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, Polyplacophora, Scaphapoda, Monoplacophorans, the Aplacophorans, Caudofoveata and Solenogastres, and Bivalvia.
Common Whelk
Linnaeus, 1758
Buccinum undatum
Class:
Gastropoda
Order:
Neogastropoda
Family:
Buccinidae
Image Voucher:
ANSP 396141
Ecological Information
Distribution:
Depth (m):
Arctic Ocean to Deleware
0 to 239 meters
Diet:
Carnivore; They feed on a variety of worms and small mollusks.
Habitat:
Marine; Moderately shallow water
Misc. Facts
Citations
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Buccinum undatum Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138878 on 2021-06-10
Morris, P. A. (1987). A field guide to shells: Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the West Indies (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin.
Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (214). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. https://doi.org/1.116/j.ecoinf.214.8.5.
Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/