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Seashells from Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach, NC

Other local area nature photos can be viewed at www. okeefes.org.



*Small Giant Atlantic Cockle, siphon on left, lunging out on right, found on Sunset Beach, NC, on 11/02/06*


*Large Knobbed Whelk covered with barnacles found on Sunset Beach, NC, 11/04/06*


*Barnacle-covered Knobbed Whelk with a small Knobbed Whelk*	*Channeled Whelk*


*Florida Horse Conch, 13 inches long, found on Sunset Beach, NC, 11/04/06*


*Channeled Duck Clam*	*Angel Wings*

*Disk Dosinia*

*Thick-lipped Drills*	*Atlantic Oyster Drills*

*Ponderous Ark Shells*	*Incongruous Ark Shell*

*Giant Atlantic Cockle*

*Prickly Cockle Shells*	*Common Egg Cockle Shells*

*Giant Atlantic Cockle (L) and* *Channeled Whelk (R) emerging from sand at low tide*

*Chaled Channeled WhelksWhelk*

*Live Knobbed Whelk*	*Knobbed Whelk with Egg Case*

*Live Kiener's Whelk (?)*	*Lightning Whelks*


*Atlantic Moon Snail Shells and Egg Cases Moon Snail Crawling under Sand*


*Wentletraps -- Four Species -- IDs needed*

*Banded Tulip Shells*	*True Tulip -- Live*

*Lettered Olive Shells*	*Imperial Venus Clams*

*Common Rice Olive Shells*	*Variable Dwarf Olive Shells*

*Hooked Mussels*	*Ribbed Mussels*

*False Tulip Mussels of Southern Horsemussels, Modiolus modiolus squamosus, found six miles away on Cherry Grove Beach, SC*

*Atlantic Jackknife Clams*	*Razor Clam*

*Worm Shells*	*Common Atlantic Babies' Ears*

*Common American Augers*	*Coquina Shells*

*Quahog Clams*

*Atlantic Slipper Shells*	*Spiny Slipper Shells*

*Scallop Shell amidst clams and coquina shells*	*Atlantic Surf Clams*

*Common Jingle Shells -- The whole ones were found on Cherry Grove Beach, SC, about six miles from my home.*

*Cross-barred Venus Shells*	*ID needed -- ______ Venus???*

*Scotch Bonnet, the NC State shell -- the only one I found in 10 years*	*Simnia Shells from Sea Whips*

*Stiff Pen Shell*	*Saw-toothed Pen Shell*

*Sunray Venus*	*Oysters*

*Keyhole Limpets*	*Tellins*

*Crosshatched Lucines*

*Atlantic Wing Oysters*

*Periwinkles*	*Florida Horse Conch*

*ID(s) Needed*	*ID Needed*