Buccinum undatum, the common whelk or the waved buccinum, is a large, edible marine gastropod in the family Buccinidae, the "true whelks". [1]

欧洲峨螺，属于贝科动物，口盖角质，核在中心或下端。 齿舌的中央齿四方形，有3个以上的齿尖，侧齿有2个大齿尖，齿尖之间有0-5个小齿。 美国东北部、西欧。 [1] 贝壳 卵形到纺缍形，前水管沟打开，轴唇襞或有或无。 壳表有螺脉或纵肋。 壳厚，卵形； 螺塔 高，体层膨圆，缝合线深。 外形及装饰多变，通常螺肋低，排列整齐，与较细的纵生长纹相交。 螺轴光滑，前水管沟短。 壳表乳黄色或淡灰色，有时缝合线处和体层中部有褐色的螺带；新鲜的壳表泛起绿色。 生长于热 …

Buccinum undatum minisculum H. J. Finlay, 1927 † · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Buccinum undatum 是 普通的鞭子 或 波浪的Buccinum ，是 Buccinidae 家族 中的大型，可食用的 海洋 腹足动物，即“ True Whelks”。

The common whelk (Buccinum undatum L.) is a subtidal gastropod widely distributed in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is fished commercially in both Europe and Canada. The species is...

Distributed from Iceland and Norway to Bay of Biscay and throughout the North Atlantic. Occasionally intertidal but mainly subtidal down to 1200 m. Found on muddy sand, gravel and also rock. Sometimes present in brackish waters. From low water to 1200m. Stout shell up to 10 cm in height. 7-8 whorls last whorl 70% of height. Broadly oval aperture.

The Common Whelk Buccinum undatum is widely distributed on gravelly deposits in shallow water around the British Isles. When an individual dies, its empty shell often forms the basis for an extended mini-community. Whelk shells are the preferred choice of home for the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus.

The common whelk, Buccinum undatum (Linnaeus, 1758), is a commercially valuable neogastropod species characterized by slow maturation rates, a mostly sedentary adult lifestyle, internal fertilization, and direct development of larvae (Himmelman, 1988; Himmelman & Hamel, 1993; Jalbert et al., 1989; Martel et al., 1986).

— Shell large, relatively fragile, broadly fusiform; protoconch not preserved; teleoconch of four strongly convex whorls separated by impressed linear suture; sculpture of weak spirals cords with secondaries variably developed; sinuous axial ribs variably developed on early whorls weakening abapically, obsolete on last 1 - 2 whorls; aperture lar...

Snails hatch from these cap­sules fully de­vel­oped (An­der­son 1988, Grz­imek 1972). This species ac­tively seeks out is liv­ing prey and car­rion, using chemore­cep­tors for sens­ing and the foot for …