Marine Animals under the Sand
Sunset Beach, NC
Jo O'Keefe Copyright 2017. Photos may be used for educational purposes only. Contact me with inquiries.
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Beaded or Marginated Sea Star, Astropecten
articulatus -- under the sand and rinsed off
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Most whelks surfacing make a mark like
this or even fainter. This one probably was hit by a wave. They always
have two characteristics: they are triangular and there is a hole a
slight distance from the end where their siphon is. It is apparent in
each of the photos below that a whelk is surfacing.
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Two different Channeled Whelks, Busycotypus
canaliculatus, surfacing
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Channeled Whelk, Busycotypus canaliculatus,
rinsed off
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Knobbed Whelk, Busycon carica,
surfacing and rinsed off
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Whelks surfacing, probably Knobbed
Whelks
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Knobbed Whelk, Busycon carica,
surfacing and rinsed off
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Atlantic Giant Cockle, Dinocardium
robustum, surfacing and rinsed off
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Another Atlantic Giant Cockle, Dinocardium
robustum, Cherry Grove Beach, SC, 9/1/2015
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Two Lettered Olives, Oliva sayana,
emerging
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Another Lettered Olive, Oliva sayana,
emerging
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Lettered Olive, Oliva sayana,
crawling and at home afterward during a photo shoot
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Shark Eye, Neverita duplicata,
crawling beneath sand before surfacing
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Sand dollars, Mellita
quinquiesperforata, surfacing
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Sand dollars, Mellita
quinquiesperforata, surfacing
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Sand dollars, Mellita
quinquiesperforata, crawling
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Sand dollar, Mellita
quinquiesperforata, crawling
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Speckled Crab, Arenaeus cribrarius,
emerging and above sand
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