page_title: Buccinum undatum
section_title: As a food item
hierarchical_section_title: Buccinum undatum / As a food item
caption_attribution_description: Cooked Whelks on a plate sprinkled with pepper. Eaten in London.
context_page_description: Buccinum undatum, the common whelk or the waved buccinum, is a large, edible marine gastropod in the family Buccinidae, the "true whelks".
context_section_description: Buccinum undatum is eaten widely, sometimes referred to by its French name bulot.  A strong fishery exists on many shores around the world. They are trapped in pots using dogfish and brown crab as bait. It can be confused with Neptunea antiqua (red whelk), which is  poisonous to humans.
caption: Cooked whelks removed from the shell
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