Fulgur conch | marine snail | Britannica (original) (raw)

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egg capsule

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  In gastropod: Reproduction and life cycles
  In Busycon, for example, each capsule may contain up to 1,000 eggs, but extensive cannibalization occurs upon unhatched eggs in the capsule and among the early hatched young. Strombus can lay a tubular string of eggs 23 metres (75 feet) long, with up to 460,000 eggs.…
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type of conch

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  In conch
  fulgur conchs (or whelks), of the genus Busycon; among these clam eaters are the channeled conch (B. canaliculatum) and the lightning conch (B. contrarium), both about 18 cm long and common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Another melongenid is the Australian trumpet,…
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