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Panopea bitruncata (Conrad, 1872) Atlantic Geoduck |
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Buried in sand inside St. Augustine Inlet, St. Johns County, Florida 3/29/2021 (153 mm.). Digital images copyright 2021 by Mark Johnson. An additional live specimen was found on a sand bar inside St. Augustine inlet by Paul Jones on 5/27/2022. |
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| Panopea bitruncata found by Florida State Senator Verle Pope in the Matanzas River, near Flagler Hospital, Saint Augustine, St. Johns County Florida, September, 1954, UF285115. Image from State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/126273. To the best of our knowledge only two additional live specimens have been found in northeast Florida since Senator Pope's find in 1954 - one in July, 2020 and a second in March, 2021 (both illustrated herein). | ||
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