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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Atlantic Dog whelk, on the coast of MaineMarine Environmental Research Institute, Blue Hill, MaineJunior Internship ProgramNew England Aquarium Summer Science ProgramNaGISA Sampling, Summer 2010

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Holy Island, England, United Kingdom

Prominent flanges serve to strengthen the shell. A 'tooth' near the aperture may be used to pry open bivalves. And the radula is used to bore through calcareous shells of prey such as barnacles and bivalve.