Shellers of Florida waters,

While sorting grit from off Boynton Beach, I was about to toss a small chunk of coral but noticed it had an aperture. (Some holiday gifts are camouflaged).

Abbott (1974) records Pterotyphis triangularis from the Keys. I seem to remember a fellow lister telling me she found a crabbed one which was running across the parking lot at John U. Lloyd State Beach in Dania. According to Redfern, this species is intertidal in the Bahamas.

Is this a commonplace shell in southeast Florida?

David Kirsh

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