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  • Tags: marine life

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Joined pair. Shell is thin, ear-shaped. Color gray with purple-brown.

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White bivalve shell. Ridges radiate out from base.

The Angel Wing shell (Cyrtopleura costata) is a species of bivalve mollusk found in the western Atlantic, from Massachusetts to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. The Angel Wing…

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

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Two scallop shells in various shades of orange mottled with white. 4 barnacles attached to one.

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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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Pair of ridged, scallop-like bivalve shells in varying shades of brown with some white. Barnacles attached.

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White bivalve shell with peach colored spines. Gray coral around base.

The Atlantic Thorny Oyster (Spondylus americanus) is recognizable from the spines that cover its shells. These spines grow at a rapid rate of 1 mm per day. Though they appear…

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

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White coral. Solid triangular mass with some short, rounded branches protruding from the front. Many branches extending from the top, kind of melded together.

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White or cream bivalve shells mottled with varying shades of brown. Ridges radiated from base. 15 count.
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