whelk
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"Butterfly blenny naturally choose abandoned whelk shells as their home but it seems they can get creative," she said..
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
Tiny baby oysters, called spat, are attached to whelk shells and placed in the bay near the existing cages to further stabilize the shoreline.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Pre-Columbian painted animal sculptures, which attest, in their lifelike accuracy, to the sophistication and skill of their creators, were found at Key Marco, Fla., along with countless lightning whelk beads, pendants and ear buttons.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
As a fierce wind sent his hair flying around his face, he pointed out some of the little things he loved: a clump of pink sea thrift, a tiny whelk.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
From On the Seashore by R. Cadwallader Smith
