| Bivalves found on Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach, North Carolina Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved | |
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Thorny
Oyster, Spondylus sp., Ocean Isle Beach, NC, 07/09/07 | |
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| Angel
Wing | Giant
Atlantic Cockle |
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| Saw-toothed
Pen Shell | Stiff
Pen Shell, 10 1/2 inches long |
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| Giant
Atlantic Cockle, small, siphon on left and exiting shell on right | |
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| Channeled
Duck Clam | Angel
Wings |
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| Disk
Dosinia | |
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| Ponderous
Ark Shells | Incongruous
Ark Shell |
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| Giant
Atlantic Cockle | |
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Shipworm
clam shell lining of the tube the clam made burrowing into the wood. | |
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| Prickly
Cockle Shells | Common
Egg Cockle Shells |
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| Cross-barred
Venus Shells | Imperial
Venus Clams |
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| Empress
Venus Shells | Scallop
Shell amidst clams and coquina shells |
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| Probably
Badly Eroded Turkey Wing Shells |
Coquina
Shells |
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| Quahog
Clams | |
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| Sunray
Venus | Atlantic
Surf Clams |
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| Common
Jingle Shells -- The whole ones were found on Cherry Grove Beach, SC, about six
miles from my home. | |
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| Stiff
Pen Shell |
Saw-toothed
Pen Shell |
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| Crosshatched
Lucines |
Tellins |
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Atlantic Wing Oysters, on Sea Whip in bottom photo | |
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| Atlantic
Jackknife Clams |
Razor
Clam |
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| Hooked
Mussels | Ribbed
Mussels |
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False
Tulip Mussels or Southern Horsemussels, Modiolus modiolus squamosus, found six
miles away on Cherry Grove Beach, SC | Mussells,
Brachidontes exustus,
found on Edisto Island, SC, 01/19/07 |
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| Oysters | |