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Busycon contrarium
This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It eats mostly bivalves, sucking their mass up with its proboscis.
Lightning whelks can be found in the sandy or muddy substrate of shallow embayments.
Status : Unknown Shelling regulation established a complete ban on the collection of live shells (Florida Department of Environmental Protection Rule 46-26) This species is native to southeastern North America,south to Florida and the Gulf states.
Spotted on May 13, 2012
Submitted on May 15, 2012
5 Comments
@ Shell Key Fl , the map is not right.
Great !
I'm glad you love it, tibiprada! Let's help make it more diverse and rich! (Btw, it will become a global mission soon.)
Thanks , sure I will .. so many beautiful creatures (species ) on this mission. Love it !
Hi tibiprada! This is a beautiful shell. I hope you'll submit it -- and your other mollusk spottings -- to the Mollusca mission. Here's the link: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1214...