PINCTADA MARGARITIFERA
WINGED OYSTERS PEARL OYSTERS FAMILY PTERIIDAE
A large family of tropical oysters having mother-of pearl interiors. A string byssus spun by the foot attached the oysters to rocks, gorgoniah stems and wharf pilings. Pearls from the genus Pinctada are of gem quality. Family Isogomonidae has many teeth in the hinge.
Location - Indo-Pacific, 5 - 30 meters offshore
PTERIA PENGUINE
WINGED OYSTERS PEARL OYSTERS FAMILY PTERIIDAE
A large family of tropical oysters having mother-of pearl interiors. A string byssus spun by the foot attached the oysters to rocks, gorgoniah stems and wharf pilings. Pearls from the genus Pinctada are of gem quality. Family Isogomonidae has many teeth in the hinge.
Location - Indo-Pacific, Shallow Water
Syn: macroptera lamark
PINCTADA MAXIMA
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TROCHUS MACULATOS
CALLIOSTOMA TOPS GENUS CALLIOSTOMA
These beautiful top-shells are found around the world, and because of their curious shapes, have been placed in various subgenera or related genera, such as Maurea, Tristichtrochus and Ziziphinus. There are several hundred species. Operculum horny and circular.
Location - Indo-Pacific, reef flats, Shallow Water
Syn: granosus lamark
NAUTILUS POMPILIUS
CHAMBERED NAUTILUS FAMILY NAUTILUS
Once dominating the ancient seas of the world, the genus Nautilus is now limited to fewer than half a dozen living species, all found in the south-western Pacific. Dead shells float as far away as East Africa and Japan. The Animal has about 90 tentacles. The chambers are filled with gas and keeps the creature balanced in midwater.
Location - Philippines and Palau Islands, living colonies
Syn: Repertus Iredale
TURBO CANALICULATOS
TURBAN SHELLS FAMILY TURBINIDAE
This is a large family of top-shaped snails, usually with thick shells, an iridescent interior, and usually with a shelly operculum that seals the aperture. Several Hundred Species are known, most from tropical seas. Angaria belongs to the trochidae. Most species are vegetarians, feeding on marin algea.
Location - Florida - Brazil off shore near reefs to 10 meters
Operculum smooth, white
PERNA VIRIDIS
SEA MUSSELS FAMILY MYTILIDAE
The true mussels are abundant throughout the world, mainly in intertidal and shallow waters. The dark colored, thin, but strong shells have a weak hinge with a few small teeth. Most attach themselves to rocks, but several genera burrows in peat, rocks and corals. The Blue mussels is a favorite food in Europe
Location Indian Ocean to South-west Pacific, shallow water
single tooth in right valve
ARCA AMERICANA
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STROMBUS LUHUANUS
TRUE CONCHS FAMILY STROMBIDAE
Includes several genera differing widely among themselves in shell features, but closely allied anatomically. Most shells have a stromboid notch near anterior end. Animals Animals are herbivorous and make leaping movements using stronng, horny, curved operculum. Eggs laid in long gelatinous strands.
Location Western Pacific, east Australia, Japan - on sand to 5 fathoms
black columella
VOLUTA VESPERTILLO
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MARGINELLA PHILIPPINARUM
MARGINELLAS FAMILY MARGINELLIDAE
One of the most beautiful families of marin gastropods. Usually less than an inch in size, always highly polished, and with several strong teeth on the columbella. Most of the 650 species live in sand in the tropics. West Africa has the most species. Prunum, Glabell, etc. are subgenera.
Location Philippines, shallow water
CONUS MAGNUS
CONES FAMILY CONIDAE
Primarily inhabitants of warm, shallow water, cones are most numerous in tropical Indo-Pacific. The poison og some cones maybe lethal to humans. Adiminutive Operculum is usually present. Eggs are deposited in purse-shaped capsules. More than 300 cone species are recognized, but many Synonyms have been created.
INDOPACIFIC AND JAPANESE CONES
The riches area in species of cones is the tropical Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. Many deep-water species are yet to be discovered. Japan has a unique cool-water fauna with many cones, as well as many Indo-Pacific Species in the south.
Location Indo-pacific shallow water
* one of the most variable of all cones with a seemingly endless range of color patterns.
TROCHUS MACULATOS
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PANOPEA GENEROSA
SAXICAVE and PANOPE CLAMS FAMILY HIATELLIDAE
Shells small to vary large, white, with weak hinge, and with long siphons. Brown ligaments external. Usually cold-water and deep-mud inhabitants. Famous Geoduck Clam of America is a favorite food.
Location Alaska to gulf of California intertidal to 10 meters in deep mud
* one of the most variable of all cones with a seemingly endless range of color patterns.
