Common Whelk feeding - Buccinum undatum

Common Whelk feeding - Buccinum undatum

The Common Whelk, Buccinum undatum, is an important and very active scavenger of the sea bottom. Here Whelks have converged on a dead mackerel.
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ss Port Napier, Skye. W. Scotland
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