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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Gastropods of Aransas National Wildlife Refuge The majority of these gastropods were Melongenidae Reference found on the Matagorda Island portion of Pear Whelk the complex... Busycon spiratus plagosum Jean Andrews, Lighting Whelk A Field Guide to Shells of the Texas Coast, Ampullaridea Busycon perversum pulleyi 1992, Texas Monthly Press Florida Applesnail Muricidae Revision March 2006 Pomacea paludosa Florida Rock Shell Architectonicidae Thais haemastoma floridana March 2006 Common Sundial Giant Eastern Murex Architectonica nobilis Murex fulvescens Buccinidae Naticidae Cancellate Cantharus Common Baby’s Ear Canthaurs cancellarius Sinum perspectivum Bulloidae Shark’s Eye Striate Bubble Polinices duplicatus Bulla striata Miniature Natica Calyptraeidae Natica pusilla Common Atlantic Slipper Neritidae Crepidula fornicata Virgin Nerite Cassidae Neritina virginea Scotch Bonnet Olividae Phalium granulatum ranulatum Lettered Olive Cymaticea Oliva sayana Atlantic Distorsio Ovulidae Distorsio clathrata Single-Toothed Simnia Ellobiidae Pseudocyphoma intermedium Coffee Melampus Sea Whip Simnia Melampus bidentatus Simnialena marferula Epitoniidae Potamididae Wentletraps Plicate Horn Shell Epitonium spp Cerithidea pliculosa Mitchell’s Wentletrap Strombidae Amaea mitchelli Fighting Conch Angulate Wentletrap Strombus alatus Epitonium angulatum Terebridae Multiribbed Wentletrap Salle’s Auger Epitonium multistriatum Hastula sallenana Fasciolariidae Tonnidae True Tulip Shell Giant Tun Shell Fasciolaria tulipa Tonna galea Florida Horse Conch Trochidae Pleuroploca gigantea Smooth Atlantic Tegula Banded Tulip Shell Tegula fasciata Fasciolaria lilium Vermetidae Janthididae West Indian Worm Shell Common Purple Storm Snail Vermicularia cf. V. spirata Janthina janthina Littorinidae Marsh Periwinkle Littorina irrorata .

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