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Busycon candelabrum J. B. Lamarck, 1816
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Neogastropoda » family Buccinidae - Whelks » genus Busycon
ID: 584941
pID: 584937
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 15:17:54 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-03-16 01:57:51
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[[t:584941;<em>Busycon candelabrum</em>]] J. B. Lamarck, 1816
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id584941/"><em>Busycon candelabrum</em></a>
pID: 584937
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2008-11-13 15:17:54 - User Jiří Novák
Data last updated: 2021-03-16 01:57:51
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id584941/
Text function: [[t:584941;<em>Busycon candelabrum</em>]]
[[t:584941;<em>Busycon candelabrum</em>]] J. B. Lamarck, 1816
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id584941/"><em>Busycon candelabrum</em></a>
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Author: Tunnell et al.
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Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 122668
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Created: 2023-04-13 16:57:12 - User Delsing Jan
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Busycon candelabrum (Lamarck, 1816) Splendid Whelk
Distribution: Texas to Yucatan. Size: 232 mm (9 in).
Description: Color light yellowish-gray with long, narrow, somewhat interrupted axial bands of brown with a broad spiral band of yellowish-gray below the middle of body whorl; shape pyriform, dextral; sculpture of numerous irregular axial ribs that turn into somewhat triangular, upwardly directed spikes or knobs at the shoulders of whorls; spiral sculpture of numerous threads over surface of shell; spire low and conic; body whorl broad with a long, narrow siphonal canal that twists toward the bottom; aperture pyriform, sometimes grooved exteriorly.
Habitat: Infaunal; in bays and offshore at depths from 0 to 64 m (210 ft). Remarks: Do not confuse with similar but left-handed B. pulleyi. Rare find in Texas. See Hollister (1958); Ode (1973c).
Distribution: Texas to Yucatan. Size: 232 mm (9 in).
Description: Color light yellowish-gray with long, narrow, somewhat interrupted axial bands of brown with a broad spiral band of yellowish-gray below the middle of body whorl; shape pyriform, dextral; sculpture of numerous irregular axial ribs that turn into somewhat triangular, upwardly directed spikes or knobs at the shoulders of whorls; spiral sculpture of numerous threads over surface of shell; spire low and conic; body whorl broad with a long, narrow siphonal canal that twists toward the bottom; aperture pyriform, sometimes grooved exteriorly.
Habitat: Infaunal; in bays and offshore at depths from 0 to 64 m (210 ft). Remarks: Do not confuse with similar but left-handed B. pulleyi. Rare find in Texas. See Hollister (1958); Ode (1973c).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
Author: Jan Delsing
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Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Busycon candelabrum Lamarck, 1816]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
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