From Vicky Wall:
Here is a list of the shells I found at Topsail Island, NC, one week
after a 1993 northeaster: All were fresh-dead; snails with opercs:
Mollusks with an * are the species I had never found before live at Topsail:
1. Noetia ponderosa                                 23. Atrina rigida*
2. Arca zebra                                            24. Mercenaria
mercenaria
3. Arca imbricata                                      25. Mercenaria
campechiensis*
4. Anadara floridana                                 26. Chione cancellata*
5. Anadara brasiliana                                27. Dosinia discus*
6. Anadara ovalis                                      28. Dosinia elegans*
7. Papyridea soleniformis*                        29. Spisula solidissima
8. Trachycardium egmontianum                 30. Tellina alternata
9. Trachycardium muricatum                      31. Donax variabilis
10. Dinocardium robustum                         32. Rupellaria typica*
11. Pteria colymbus                                   33. Ensis directus*
12. Pinctada imbricata*                              34. Busycon sinistrum*
13. Crassostrea virginica                             35. Busycon carica*
14. Plicatula gibbosa*                                 36. Busycotypus
spiratus*
15. Chama macerophylla*                          37. Fasciolaria lilium
hunteria*
16. Pseudochama radians*                         38. Urosalpinx cinera
17. Arcinella cornuta*                                 39. Eupleura caudata
18. Anomia simplex*                                  40. Phyllonotus pommum*
19. Argopecten gibbus                                41. Muricanthus
fulvescens*
20. Modiolus modiolus                                42. Terebra dislocata
21. Ischadium recurvum*                             43. Vermicularia knorri*
22. Atrina serrata*                                      44. Oliva sayana*
                                                                   45.
Neverita duplicata*
Harry G. Lee wrote:                                    46. Turbo castanea*
                                                                   47.

> Vicky,
>
> This is off-list.
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> If you are so inclined, can you post a list to Conch-L?  You can post
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> Harry
>
>
> At 08:26 PM 10/1/2004, you wrote:
>
>> I have never had the chance to shell after a hurricane, but made it to
>> Topsail Island, NC a week after a northeaster storm. I missed out on
>> some of the larger species, but found over 40 different species in 1
>> day  I had never found there in 10 years of previous trips.
>>
>> Ellen Bulger wrote:
>>
>>> I was down in San Carlos last year, three weeks after a hurricane.
>>> Same scene, different shells.
>>>  I had buckets, and a pickup truck!
>>
>
> Harry G. Lee
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