Vocabulary
- Operculum – a covering flap that acts as a trap door, able to seal the whelk inside its shell when it is retracted.
- Proboscis – an organ that whelks use to feed with.
Fun Facts
- The Knobbed Whelk is the largest snail in Long Island Sound.
- Now that the number of lobsters have been decreasing in the Long Island Sound, many lobstermen in CT have switched to fishing for whelks.