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Cream with tan bands on bottom half. Top half very pale purplish-gray.

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Brown with cream colored spots. Pale gray line runs length of shell, off-center. Short brown lines border opening on underside.

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Mottled gray and white gastropod shell. Dark brown lines around.

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Pale gray snail shell with some light brown. Underside white. Interior brown. Hole on side.

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Pale pink and white gastropod shell. Long, thin spines on stem and ridges.

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Pale orange gastropod shell with white band.

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Orange and cream striped gastropod shell. Several gray patches. Brown at bottom and on underside. Top of spiral white/gray.

The official state shell of Florida, the Horse Conch (Triplofusus giganteus), is the largest marine gastropod in North…

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Gastropod shell, cream colored with white. Pale pink spiral tip.

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Cream colored and light brown. Large, rounded ridges around shell, alternating with smaller ridges. Tip of spiral dark brown.

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Large, white shell with faint traces of pink lines on sides. Spiral is a light grayish-purple.

When held with the spiral end up, the opening of the lightning whelk is on the left. This is unlike most other gastropods, where the opening is on the…
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