Busycotypus
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Busyconidae
Subfamily:	Busycotypinae
Genus:	Busycotypus Wenz, 1943
Type species
Murex canaliculatus Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text
Synonyms
Busycotypus (Pyrofulgur) Hollister, 1958

Busycotypus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Busycotypinae .

In the United States, these are commonly known as whelks.^[1]

• † Busycotypus calvertensis Petuch, 1988
• Busycotypus canaliculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (the channeled whelk)

Species brought into synonymy

• Busycotypus plagosus (Conrad, 1863): synonym of Fulguropsis plagosa (Conrad, 1863)
• Busycotypus spiratus (Conrad, 1863): synonym of Fulguropsis spirata (Lamarck, 1816)

• Hollister S.C. 1958, A review of the genus Busycon and its allies - Part I: Palaeontographica Americana IV(28): 48–126, pls. 8-18 page(s): 99
• Petuch E.J. (1994). Atlas of Florida fossil shells. Evanston, Illinois: Chicago Spectrum Press. 394 pp., 20 figs., 100 pls.

page(s): 317

• Jaxshell info at: [1]
• Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. N. & Bouchet, P. (2022) (nomenclatural availability: 2021). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194: 789-857