MatBio Oyster Reef Biota

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Ragged Seahare ¹
Bursatella leachii

Sharp Nassa ²
Nassarius acutus

Black-spot Nassa ³
Nassarius polygonatus

Bruised Nassa ⁴
Nassarius vibex

Eastern Mudsnail ⁵
Ilyanassa obsoleta

Crown Conch ⁶
Melongena corona

Common Atlantic Slippersnail ⁷
Crepidula fornicata

Impressed Odostome ⁷
Boonea impressa

Olive Nerite ⁸
Neritina reclivata

Virgin Nerite ²
Neritina virginea

Edited by matbio, Jose Nunez, and Emily Rose Sharkey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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1. (c) Jose Nunez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Jose Nunez
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