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Seaweed Shells -- June 2008
Copyright 2008 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved
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Nassarius
acutus
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Costoanachis
sertulariarum (d'Orbigny, 1841) Florida Dovesnail
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Echinolittorina
interrupta -- 4
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Olivella
cf. prefloralia
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Ilyanassa
obsoleta
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Pollia
tincta
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Costoanachis
avara
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Costoanachis
translirata
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Rubellatoma
rubella
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Nassarius
acutus
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Nassarius
acutus -- I have fallen in love with this shell.
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Brachidontes
exustus
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Shells and the chain of egg cases from which they came
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Petricola
pholadiformis -- These are two different shells, so small that I
could only pick them up by wetting my finger.
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Donax
parvulus -- This coquina is equally small but less fragile because
it is intact.
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Lunarca
ovalis -- This is an equally small ark shell.
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Petricola
pholadiformis -- extremely small
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Astyris
lunata -- This is the smallest shell, 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.
Below this photo I have pasted a copy of the same species of shell,
larger and easier to see and photograph, from this web page: Microscope
Gastropod Photos.
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Astyris
lunata
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Littoraria irrorata
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Astyris
lunata
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Terebra
dislocata
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Anadara
transversa
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Astyris
lunata
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Ilyanassa
trivittata
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