Help identifying these little guys...
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03-17-2009, 01:05 PM,
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Help identifying these little guys...
HA HA Â Is my face red! Â Never thought I would get fooled by one my commonest local shells :-) Â It's a matter of scale. Â When I looked at your picture the first time I figured the bivalve was maybe 3 inches or so and the snails were maybe a half inch. Â They kind of resembled immature Cerithium, but not really - which is why I asked about the locality. Â Now that you tell me the location - a location where I myself have collected a number of times - I realize that both the bivalve and the snails are much smaller than I had estimated. Â These are Bittium alternatum. Â I believe it is the most abundant gastropod on the south shore of Cape Cod. Â I have shaken a handful of seaweed in a bucket of water and come up with more than a thousand of them. Â I'm in Providence. Â I have collected in Fairhaven-Mattapoisett-Marion-Wareham many times.
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Help identifying these little guys... - by dizarray - 03-17-2009, 11:19 AM
Help identifying these little guys... - by dizarray - 03-17-2009, 11:58 AM
Help identifying these little guys... - by paul monfils - 03-17-2009, 01:05 PM
Help identifying these little guys... - by paul monfils - 03-17-2009, 02:22 PM
Help identifying these little guys... - by dizarray - 03-18-2009, 11:18 AM
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