Cittarium pica, common name the West Indian top shell or magpie shell, is a species of large edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. This species has a large …

2025年3月12日 · This is a seashell identification guide with beautiful photos of univalves from the U.S. Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Indo-Pacific coasts. Includes 43 varieties of …

Cittarium pica, the West Indian Top Shell or “whelk,” is an understudied but culturally and ecologically important intertidal gastropod in the Caribbean. The species faces …

Whelks are any of several carnivorous sea snail species [1] with a swirling, tapered shell. Many are eaten by humans, such as the common whelk of the North Atlantic.

This snail is known as "wilk" or "wilks" (or sometimes as "whelks") in the English-speaking Caribbean islands of the West Indies, where this is a popular food item.

2022年4月9日 · Being new to the Caribbean, I didn’t know what body-surfing WAS, but it sounded like fun and I was game to give it a try. Twisted pieces of bleached driftwood were piled on the …

2018年8月13日 · In the Caribbean, whelks are commonly found on or under rocks, as well as in inter-tidal and shallow sub-tidal coastal zones, and where they are exposed to wave action …

2015年10月29日 · The West Indian (Caribbean) whelk is a marine gastropod mollusk with a characteristic black-and-white shell. Pronounced “wilks” in the English-speaking Caribbean, it …

Penion maximus is a species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, commonly known as giant whelk or great whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Austrosiphonidae.

Their shells are thick, heavy, round and smooth without any shell "tail" like the tulip snails or other whelks. They are extinct in some areas because of over harvesting and exploitation. It is the …