Checklists & Collecting Reports
Lists of shells collected at Florida/Gulf locations
Posted: Dec 24 2023
Tarpon Springs (West Central Florida)
The list presented here on Dec 24, 2023 is copied from the LTS list and data on Tapatalk from 2002 thru 2006. No additions were made after 2006. The list is recreated here to allow easy additions from this date forward. ...
Additions to the list are welcome. Mail to marlo.is@yahoo.com. Photos should be included if possible so identifications can be confirmed. Additions after 12/24/23 are footnoted at bottom of list.
Names were those current when specimens observed. List is not updated as names change.
"Tarpon Springs" includes the bays, lagoons and ocean from Gulf Harbors at the north to the waters around the causeway to Honeymoon Island at the south.
Univalves
Acteocina canaliculata
Acteocina candei
Assiminea succinea
Astyris lunata
Bittium varium
Bulla striata
Cantharus multangulus
Caecum nitidum
Cerithium muscarum
Cerodrillia thea
Columbella rusticoides
Conus stearnsii
Conus spurius SR*
Costoanachis semiplicata
Crassispira leucocyma
Crassispira sanibelensis
Conus jaspideus stearnsi
Cylindrobulla beauii
Dentimargo aureocinctus
Dentimargo eburneolus
Gibberula lavalleeana
Glyphoturris quadrata
Granulina hadria
Haminoea elegans
Haminoea succinea
Hespererato maugeriae
Ithycythara lanceolata
Longchaeus suturalis
Marshallora modesta
Microeulima terebralis; Previously Strombiformis hemphilli
Modulus modulus
Nassarius vibex
Odostomia laevigata
Olivella mutica
Olivella pusilla
Parvanachis obesa
Pilsbryaspira leucocyma
Pilsbryaspira monilis
Prunum apicinum
Prunum amabile
Prunum avenacea
Pyrgocythara filosa
Pyrgocythara plicosa
Pyrgocythara hemphilli
Pyrgocythara plicosa
Pyrgospira tampaensis
Rissoina redferni
Schwartziella catesbyana
Stellatoma stellata
Suturoglypta iontha
Terebra concava
Terebra protexta
Turbonilla arnoldi
Turbonilla conradi
Turbonilla dalli
Turbonilla hemphilli
Turbonilla incisa
Turbonilla incisa constricta
Turbonilla levis
Turbonilla ornata
Turbonilla puncta
Turbonilla rixtae
Turbonilla speira
Turbonilla textilis
Turbonilla unilirata
Turbonilla virga
Bivalves
Turbonilla virga
Anomalocardia cuneimeris
Carditamera floridana
Chione elevata
Cuna dalli
Glans dominguensis
Laevicardium mortoni
Lindapecten exasperatus
Linga amiantus
Lucina nassula
Parastarte triquetra
Parvilucina nassula
Pitar simpsoni
Tellidora cristata
Petricolaria pholadiformis SR*
*Additions submitted by:
RF - Collected and reported by Robert Fales
SR - Observed/collected and reported by Steve Rosenthal
Avril Bourquin, developer of the Man and Mollusc website, was an early recipient of a vial of Tarpon Springs micros. She put a lot of effort into photographing and identifying them. Click Here to see the results.