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Buccinidae

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Noun1.Buccinidae - whelks
family Buccinidae
mollusk family - a family of mollusks
class Gasteropoda, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Gastropoda - snails and slugs and their relatives
whelk - large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
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1985), and the presence of male characters in females in at least 12 Buccinidae genera (Power & Keegan 2001) has lead to the hypothesis that knobbed whelks may be protandric hermaphrodites that initially mature as males and then undergo functional sex reversal at larger sizes (Walker 1988).
The whelk dredge fishery of Delaware by Bruce, David Garcia / Journal of Shellfish Research
The activity against fewer biofilm bacteria observed in Cronia margariticola and in other gastropod egg masses of Cassidae, Conidae, Cypraeidae, Alplysidae, and Buccinidae in the present study could be influenced by their stage of development.
Potential antimicrobial activity of marine molluscs from tuticorin, ... by Murugan, A. / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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