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Prickly cockle:
Giant cockle:
Fighting conch:
Cut-Ribbed ark:
Crown conch:
Scallop:
Lettered olive:
Docinia
Sharks eye
Pen shell
Disk dosinia
Limpet
Broad-ribbed Carditid
Ark
Banded tulip
Limpet
Florida horse conch
Lightning whelk
Cat’s paw
Sunray venus
Turkey wing
Keyhole limpet
Common jingle
Dosinia-like lucine
Tampa drill
Striate bubble
Antilles glassy bubble
Amber glassy bubble
White melampus
Transverse ark
Eastern auger
Tongue auger
Fine-ribbed auger
Murex haustellum
Florida cone
Alphabet cone
Crossed ribbed venus
Coquina
Chestnut turban
Gem cyclostreme
Fargo worm snail
Ladder horn snail
Dark cerith
Fly speck cerith
Button snail
Cloudy periwinkle
Mangrove periwinkle
Slipper snail
Mauve-mouth drill
Gulf oyster drill
Apple murex
Calico scallop
Angel wing
Pear whelk
Chestnut turban
Skeletons:
Sea urchin
Starfish
Sand dollar:
Coral
Brittle star
Please help me identify these shells:
If you know the specific or general name for any of these shells please help me identify them. You can e-mail/text me at editor@surfingthegulf.com.
If you’d like to contribute to the sea shell library send in your photos to editor@surfingthegulf.com, and I can help you identify them.