Understanding the requirements of this species to specific nutrient
components is necessary for the formulation of a compound feed for artificial culture. If the whelks prefer a certain food, determining the nutrients that attract this gastropod to ingest and investigating their dietary
preference would be helpful. Furthermore, their feeding behavior and
nutritional needs under artificial culture conditions should be studied
to allow routine large-scale culturing. The cost of feed may account for
up to 40% of the overall production costs in aquaculture (Webber and
Riordan, 1976; Woodcock and Benkendorff, 2008). The feeding habits
of many marine gastropods, such asChicoreus ramous(Nugranad and
Kerdpoom, 1995),Syrinx aruanus(Taylor and Glover, 2003),Buccinum