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Seaweed Shells -- June 2008
Copyright 2008 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
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Knobbed
Whelks from egg cases -- Busycon carica
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Busycotypus spiratus -- Pear Whelks
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L: 2 Busycotypus
canaliculatu -- Channeled Whelk; R: 2 Busycotypus spiratus -- Pear
Whelk
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Shells and the chain of egg cases from which they came
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These
are two different Coquina shells, so tiny that the only way to pick
them up is by wetting my finger.
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This
Coquina is equally small but less fragile because it is intact.
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This
is an equally small Ark shell.
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I
think that this extremely tiny shell is a Ribbed Mussel.
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This
is the smallest shell. It is so small that it felt like a large grain
of sand between byssal threads that I pulled off of the shell above
it. Note thread sticking out on right edge of above shell. It took five
minutes to get this shell to stay turned over. Below this photo I have
pasted a copy of the same species of shell, obviously larger and easier
to see and photograph, from this web page: Microscope
Gastropod Photos.
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bivalve
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