Melongenidae, the crown conchs, busycon whelks and their relatives, are a taxonomic family of large to very large marine gastropods in the clade Neogastropoda. == Taxonomy == The genera Busycon and Busycotypus were previously placed in the Melongenidae. However, based on their digestive systems and on cladistic analysis by Kosyan & Kantor (2004), ...
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(from the article `conch`) In the family Melongenidae are fulgur conchs (or whelks), of the genus Busycon; among these clam eaters are the channeled conch (B. canaliculatum) ...
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