Gastropoda from San Salvador

Flamingo Tongue (Cyphoma gibbosum): mantle with black-ringed orange spots.

more pictures

True Tulip (Fasciolaria tulipa): smooth shell with mottled brown pattern and thin dark spirals.

King Helmet (Cassis tuberosa): wavy redlines on shell, with 7-8 dark lines on lip of aperture.

more pictures

King Helmet - aperture

Queen Conch (Strombus gigas): yellow-orange shell with blunt spines and a pink aperture.

Lip Triton (Cymatium labiosum): 4-5 robust, ribbed whorls.

Spotted Sea Hare (Aplysia dactylomela): light-brown to green with black-ringed spots.

photo by Mary Everhart

more pictures

Warty Sea Cat (Dolabrifera dolabrifera): green body with numerous papillae and truncated tentacles.

Back to Mollusca

Back to MAIN