#4577 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Common Whelk
🇳🇱 Wulk ·Buccinum undatum
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 South Holland, NL
📍 Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © licensed media from BioImages DwCA without owner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Julia Sigwart · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Roj · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © guylafond · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © tamsynmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. South Holland, NL:© daxkifa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Netherlands:© Max Willems · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Buccinum undatum , the common whelk or the waved buccinum , is a large, edible marine gastropod in the family Buccinidae, the "true whelks"....
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 340 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #9 most seen of the snails, slugs & other molluscs in NL.
- 8,986 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Whelk
- Nederlands
- Wulk
- scientific name
- Buccinum undatum
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Buccinidae
- sightings in NL
- 340
- sightings in Europe
- 6,090
- sightings worldwide
- 8,986
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,649
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130213, Wikidata Q21116, GBIF 2305073, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.