Barefoot Discoveries

Giant Heart Cockle: Chowder-Maker's Friend

By Patricia B. Mitchell

Note: See also Patricia's website SeashellGuide.com.

• A Jingle (Shell) in Your Pocket
• Angel Wing: Contradictory Clam is Weak but Strong
• Atlantic Bittersweet: What's In a Name?
• Atlantic Ribbed Mussel: A Breathing Bivalve
• Atlantic Winged Oyster: Wings Not Fit to Eat
• Blood Ark Clams: Furry Beach Critters
• Calico Scallop: Classic Beauty
• Campeche Angel Wing: Imagine the Feathers!
• Common Atlantic Oyster: Some Good Eating
• Common Atlantic Slipper, Boat, or Quarterdeck Shell: Master/Mistress of Metamorphosis
• Common Razor Clam: Long-Footed, Cut-Throat Clam
• Convex Slipper Shell: A Deep Dug-Out
• Coquina: Candidate for Shell Soup
• Cross-Hatched Lucine: “An Excellent Choice of Pattern”
• Cut-Ribbed Ark: Groovy!
• Dwarf Razor Clam: Toe Search
• Eared Ark: Rare in the Carolinas
• Eastern White Slipper: It Gets Attached Easily
• False Angel Wing: A Piddock for Your Thoughts
• Florida Horse Conch: Tiny “Foal,” Big Horse
• Florida Spiny Jewel Box: Beautiful Beach Bauble
• Giant Heart Cockle: Chowder-Maker's Friend
• Goose Barnacle: Undulating Creature
• Incongruous Ark: Plentiful and Beautiful
• Knobbed Whelk: Shell Money
• Lettered Olive Shell: Scribblings on the Surface
• Lightning Whelk: A Sinistral Snail
• Mossy Ark: Born to Shag
• Ponderous Ark: Thick and Heavy
• Spiny Slipper Shell: Spot the Radiating Ridges
• Turkey Wing Clam: Suitable for a Pie
• Vanhyning's Heart Cockle: In the Old Days, Florida's Souvenir Ashtray!
• White Bearded Ark: Perhaps Neither White nor Bearded
• Yellow Cockle: From the Garden of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

Copyright © 2006–2009 Patricia B. Mitchell.