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Knobbed Whelk  

Knobbed Whelk, Busycon Carica. The Knobbed Whelk is a shell that has a snail inside that outside of the shell can be many different colors but is usually grey or off white. The Domain is Eukaryote and the kingdom is Animalia. Phylum is Mollusca and the class is gastropoda. Order is neogastropoda and the family is melongenidae. Genus is busycon and species is carica. The habitat of the knobbed whelk is mostly in shallow water in estuaries but can be found in offshore depths of up to 150 feet. A fun fact about the knobbed whelk is that the female is larger than the male. The knobbed whelk has asymmetrical which means that  they don't have any symmetry. A structural adaptation is that they have a really hard shell. A functional adaptation is that it protects itself from predators by a door called the operculum. A behavioral adaptation is that they feed on dead animals and plant. The predators of the knobbed whelk are crabs, sea stars and urchins. Knobbed whelk are also heterotroph which means they eat other meats or plants. They are also exothermic which means they are cold blooded. I hope you learned about knobbed whelk!!