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Nature Guide to the Carolina Coast

Whelks
     
 
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Channeled Whelks
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelks Surfacing
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk with periostracum visible
Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk
   
Knobbed Whelk Shell and Live Channeled Whelk
Channeled Whelk pivoting
Lightning Whelks
Lightning Whelk
Lightning Whelk
Lightning Whelks
Lightning Whelks
Knobbed Whelks
Knobbed Whelk covered with barnacles - same
Knobbed Whelk.
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelk -- same
   
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelks
   
Knobbed Whelk -- same
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelk
Knobbed Whelks demonstrating differences
   
Knobbed Whelk -- same
Knobbed Whelk emerging
Knobbed Whelk emerging
Knobbed Whelk emerging
Knobbed Whelk emerging
Knobbed Whelk shell
Knobbed Whelk shell
Knobbed Whelk shell
Knobbed Whelk shell
Knobbed Whelk shells
Knobbed Whelk shells
   
Knobbed Whelk Egg Chain with eggs and albumen visible inside, Sunset Beach, NC, 05/15/10
   
Knobbed Whelk egg cases -- holes indicate where baby whelks exited
Knobbed Whelk with egg case
Knobbed Whelk with egg case
Knobbed Whelk with hermit crab -- apparently flat-clawed
Lightning Whelk with hermit crab
Juvenile whelk less than 1/16" long
Juvenile whelk less than 1/16" long
Juvenile whelk less than 1/16" long
Juvenile whelk less than 1/16" long
Juvenile whelk less than 1/16" long
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium
Knobbed Whelk in aquarium