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The scientist looked at imposex in the dog whelk, a common snail along the coast of New South Wales.
It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella.
The channelled whelk is almost as big, and may be distinguished by the deep, channelled grooves which follow the whorls of the shell.
The whelk-enclosure experiment demonstrated that the predatory whelk affected not only survivorship but also growth rate of the clam.
Not because it does anything fancy or unusual, or because it charges £300 for half a sautéed whelk.
Non-compliance with 2007 whelk licence conditions by harvesting whelk using whelk traps without valid tags.
Non-compliance with 2009 whelk licence conditions by keeping whelks under the legal size of 70 mm.
There are also plans to impose a minimum legal size for whelk and Greenland halibut to protect their stocks in the estuary and Gulf.
The crab, common scallop and common whelk referred to in Article 3 shall not be classified according to specific standards of freshness.
The fact he could be won round to this cranky idea demonstrates that he shouldn't be trusted in charge of a whelk stall, let alone the national economy.
Excavations found a rough stone chamber-like feature towards the east end with a female burial, bones from various other individuals, and a necklace of dog whelk shells.
Their  arrogance and incompetence was a toxic mix and they couldn't run a whelk stall.
But like Mr Morsi and his friends, Aung San Suu Kyi and her colleagues have never run a whelk stall, never mind a country.
One tangled itself in a whelk trap near Natashquan and was freed without serious injury.
Green sea urchins, waved whelk, Stimpson's surfclam and snow crab are also found in the sector.
They scratched a living from shrimp and whelk, operating one or two lobster pots and surviving on what the trawlermen chucked back into the waters.
Protandry in knobbed whelk may be opportunistic, and not every individual may be capable of it.
It was alleged that the queen conch was mislabelled and falsely documented as non-endangered frozen whelk meat so as to escape the scrutiny of U. S. and Canadian border and wildlife officials.
Iain had become master of his own destiny but an angry ball of crabs, a dog whelk and a starfish suggested our future didn't lie in catching lobsters.
When they're not occupied with serious scientific stuff, they can be counted on to help you tell your dog whelk from your limpet.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.
The whelk and Periwinkle are gathered in immense numbers, and are used by us for food.
As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.
Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
The chief enemy of the young oyster is a species of whelk, known in France as the bigourneau, dog whelk, or piercer.
But the fact is that the eggs of the whelk are just like those of the frog.
Now we will look at a shell-builder, the whelk, who uses his flinty tongue in quite another fashion.
The whelk had no idea how to teach any one, so the subject dropped.
The only plant now operating on the coast, Blanc Sablon Seafoods, processes scallops, whelk, lumpfish roe, stimson clams and sea urchins.
The white whelk shell is a symbol of power and peace and all the good things, and the purple or black quahog clam shell is just the opposite.
Like the whelk, he loves the bivalve mollusk, but does not bore for it.
The channeled whelk supports a small but growing fishery in Massachusetts.
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