Webmaster's Reverse Coiled Marine Gastropods

Busycon perversum (Linnaeus, 1758) [dextral specimen of a normally sinistral species]

Reverse Coiled Busycon perversum (Linnaeus, 1758) Lightning Whelk

    Reverse coiled specimen on the left (71 mm.) and normally coiled specimen on the right (83 mm.). Buried in sand bar, minus tide, Little Talbot Island, Duval Co., Florida 3/6/2005

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