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Whelk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dog whelk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Knobbed Whelks, Channeled Whelks, Lightning Whelks. Living and shells only. Egg cases and aquarium photos. ... Note: The photos below are unrelated to whelks and put here briefly for ID purposes on 12/17/09.
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Whelks in Maine have traditionally been landed as an incidental by-catch of the lobster fishery, with only a handful of harvesters utilizing specially designed whelk traps in a directed effort. The product is typically shipped live for mostly ethnic (oriental) markets in Boston and New York City.
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Most often, these whelks eat clams--usually one a month. With its large foot, the whelk pries open the clam's shell. Then, with the clam shell held open by the edge of its own shell, the whelk sends its proboscis and toothed, tongue-like radula inside to rasp and eat the softer "meat."
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And he used to give me whelks. Not being the most elegant-looking of the marine gastropod molluscs, I wasn’t sure at first, but once I’d tried one of the creamy, minerally snails dipped in some proper French mayonnaise, I was a convert.
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This latter point, the abundance of juvenile whelks in reef aquaria, causes some further complications. Whelks are, in general, very long-lived animals and estimates of adult ages in the three to four decade range are fairly frequent.
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Diet: Knobbed Whelks eat clams. They open the clam with their hard shell, and insert their long proboscis. They eat using a radula, a rough tongue-like organ that has thousands of tiny denticles (tooth-like protrusions).
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The whelks are large marine snail having a thick-lipped spiral shell with many protuberances. The whelks are located in temperate waters. Whelks are both scavengers and carnivores which feeds on crabs, lobsters, and other shellfish.
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Recently published* results of research conducted by Dr. Wise (Houston Museum of Natural Science), Dr. Dillon (College of Charleston), and Dr. Harasewych (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution) suggests that all living sinistral whelks of the west Atlantic are conspecific [of the same species],
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