{{Short description|Family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Busyconidae | image = Fulguropsis spirata pahayokee 01.JPG | image_caption = The pear whelk fulguropsis spirata | authority = Wade, 1917 (1867) | display_parents = 3 }}
The '''Busyconidae''' are taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks.<ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Busyconidae Wade, 1917 (1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=862828 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025220011/https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=862828 |date=2022-10-25 }} on 2022-10-26</ref>
==Subfamilies== * Busyconinae <small>Wade, 1917 (1867)</small> * Busycotypinae <small>Petuch, 1994</small> ** ''Busycotypus'' <small>Wenz, 1943</small> ** ''Fulguropsis'' <small>Marks, 1950</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Wade, B. (1917). An Upper Cretaceous Fulgur. American Journal of Science. ser. 4, 43: 293–297. * Petuch E.J., Myers R.F. & Berschauer D.P. (2015). The living and fossil Busycon whelks: Iconic mollusks of eastern North America. San Diego Shell Club. viii + 195 pp
==External links== {{Commons category}} * [https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031 Kantor, Y.I., Fedosov, A.E., Kosyan, A.R., Puillandre, N., Sorokin, P.A., Kano, Y., Clark, R. N. & Bouchet, P. (2022) (nomenclatural availability: 2021). Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194: 789-857]
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Category:Busyconidae