JUNONIA Strombus Pugilis Donax Variabilis Anomia Simplex Scaphella Junonia
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BANDED TULIP CALICO SCALLOP FLORIDA CERITH HEART COCKLE Cinctura lilium Argopecten gibbus Cerithium floridanum Corculum cardissa Identify the Banded Calico scallops can live Ceriths are slender with This thin, Tulip by its distinct thin up to 400 meters a pointy tip. They are heart-shaped shell brown horizontal lines deep and have red and herbivores that graze is a treat to find along the shell. pink patches. on the sea bed. fully intact. SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Bivalvia SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Bivalvia APPROXIMATE SIZE 4” APPROXIMATE SIZE .5–.5” APPROXIMATE SIZE –” APPROXIMATE SIZE –” FIGHTING CONCH COQUINA JINGLE SHELLS JUNONIA Strombus pugilis Donax variabilis Anomia simplex Scaphella junonia This hefty shell may This small shell may These shiny shells Identify the Banded vary in color from present in a variety of are aptly named, as Tulip by its distinct thin salmon and pink to colors with or without they jingle when brown horizontal lines orange and yellow. darker bands. shaken together. along the shell. SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Bivalvia SHELL CLASS Bivalvia SHELL CLASS Gastropoda APPROXIMATE SIZE 3–4” APPROXIMATE SIZE ” APPROXIMATE SIZE –3” APPROXIMATE SIZE 5” LIGHTNING WHELK LACE MUREX LETTERED OLIVE SAND DOLLAR Busycon perversum Chicoreus florifer Oliva sayana Clypeasteroida This predatory The lace murex has This smooth, These unmistakable sea snail feasts the ability to drill into shiny shell can be flat treasures are on bivalves with the shells of bivalves identified by dark zig actually a type of its proboscis. to eat their flesh. zag markings. sea urchin. SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Echinoidea APPROXIMATE SIZE .5–8” APPROXIMATE SIZE 3–6” APPROXIMATE SIZE –” APPROXIMATE SIZE 4” SPINY JEWEL BOX KEYHOLE LIMPET DALL WENTLETRAP WORM SNAIL SHELL Arcinella cornuta Fissurellidae Cirsotrema dalli Rehder Vermetidae This light-colored Limpets live on and This shell has a These irregular shell’s trademark under rocks and have very distinct spiral elongated tubes is its numerous a small opening at the and means “spiral don’t resemble hollow spines. top of their shell. staircase” in Dutch. typical snail shells. SHELL CLASS Bivalvia SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Gastropoda SHELL CLASS Gastropoda APPROXIMATE SIZE ” APPROXIMATE SIZE ” APPROXIMATE SIZE –” APPROXIMATE SIZE .–.”.