Mollusks

Flamingo tongue snails can often be found feeding in coral reefs.

NPS image by Kara Wall

The following mollusks are documented in the park. The table below is not exhaustive. Sightings of species not on this list may be submitted to the webmaster.

Category	Scientific Name	Common Name, if available
bivalve	Abra aequalis	Atlantic abra
	Anomalocardia auberiana	pointed venus
	Arca imbricata	mossy ark
	Arca zebra	turkey wing
	Arcopsis adamsi	cancellate ark
	Asaphis deflorata	gaudy asaphis
	Barbatia cancellaria	red-brown ark
	Brachidontes exustus	scorched mussel
	Codakia orbicularis	tiger lucine
	Crassostrea spp.	oyster
	Dendostrea frons	frond oyster
	Diplodonta punctata	Atlantic diplodon
	Isognomon alatus	flat tree-oyster
	Isognomon radiatus	radial purse-oyster
	Laevicardium mortoni	yellow egg cockle
	Laevicardium serratum	cockle
	Lima caribaea	spiny fileclam
	Lima lima	spiny fileclam
	Lima scabra	rough fileclam
	Linga pensylvanica	pennsylvania lucine
	Malleus candeanus	Caribbean hammer-oyster
	Ostrea equestris	crested osyter
	Periglypta listeri	princess venus
	Phacoides pectinata	thick lucine
	Pinctada imbricata radiata	Atlantic pearl-oyster
	Pinna carnea	amber penshell
	Pitar fulminatus	lightning venus clam
	Polymesoda maritima	southern marshclam
	Pseudochama radians	Atlantic jewelbox
	Pteria colymbus	Atlantic wing-oyster
	Tagelus plebeius	stout razor clam
	Tellina radiata	sunrise tellin
	Tucetona pectinata	comb bittersweet
cephalopod	Octopus briareus	Caribbean reef octopus
	Sepioteuthis sepioidea	Caribbean reef squid
chiton	Acanthopleura granulata	fuzzy chiton
nudibranch/ sea slug	Aeolidiella stephanieae
	Cadlina rumia
	Discodoris evelinae	brown doris
	Elysia crispata	lettuce slug
	Glossodoris sedna	red-tipped sea goddess
	Hypselodoris acriba
	Jorunna spazzola
	Onchidella floridana	Florida onchidella
	Scyllaea pelagica	sargassum nudibranch
sea hare	Aplysia brasiliana	mottled sea hare
	Aplysia dactylomela	spotted sea hare
	Aplysia wilcoxi
	Bursatella leachii	ragged sea hare
	Bursatella leachii pleii	ragged sea hare
snail	Astralium phoebium	longspine starsnail
	Batillaria minima	West Indian false cerith
	Bittium varium	grass cerith
	Bulla occidentalis	West Indian bubble shell
	Bulla striata umbilicata	striate bubble shell
	Caecum nitidium
	Caecum pulchellum	beautiful caecum
	Cassis tuberosa	Helmet conch
	Cerithium atratum	dark cerith
	Cerithium eburneum	ivory cerith
	Cerithium litteratum	stocky cerith
	Cerithium lutosum	variable cerith
	Cerithium muscarum	flyspeck cerith
	Chondropoma dentatum	crenulate horn
	Columbella rusticoides	rusty dovesnail
	Conus stearnsii
	Crassispira albomaculata
	Crepidula maculosa	spotted slippersnail
	Cyphoma gibbosum	flamingo tongue
	Cypraea cervus	Atlantic Deer Cowrie
	Dentimargo aureocinctus	gold-line marginella
	Detracia bullaoides
	Drymaeus multilineatus	lined treesnail
	Eulithidium thalassicola	turtlegrass pheasant
	Fasciolaria tulipa	true tulip
	Fissurella barbadensis	Barbados keyhole limpet
	Guppya gundlachi	glossy granule
	Haustellum rubidus
	Helicina clappi	rainbow drop
	Hojeda inaguensis	Keys mudcloak
	Janthina janthina	common purple sea snail
	Liguus fasciatus	Florida tree snail
	Lithopoma americanum	American starsnail
	Lithopoma caelatum	carved starsnail
	Littorina angulifera	mangrove periwinkle
	Littorina ziczac	zebra periwinkle
	Lucina pensylvanica	Pennsylvania lucine
	Marshallora nigrocincta	black-line triphora
	Melampus bidentatus	eastern melampus
	Melongena corona	crown conch
	Mitrella argus	argus dovesnail
	Modulus modulus	buttonsnail
	Nassarius albus	white nassa
	Nerita peloronta	Bleeding tooth
	Nerita tessellata	checkered nerite
	Nerita versicolor	four-toothed nerite
	Nesovitrea dalliana	depressed glass
	Oliva reticularis	netted Olive
	Oliva sayana	lettered Olive
	Pleuroploca gigantea	horse conch
	Pollia tincta	tinted cantharus
	Polygyra cereolus	southern flatcoil
	Prunum apicinum	common Atlantic marginella
	Prunum pruinosum
	Siphonaria spp.	limpet
	Smaragdia viridis	emerald nerite
	Strombus costatus	milk conch
	Strombus gigas	queen conch
	Tectarius muricatus	beaded periwinkle
	Tegula fasciata	silky tegula
	Thysanophora plagioptycha	lyrate fringed snail
	Truncatella caribaeensis	Caribbean truncatella
	Truncatella pulchella	beautiful truncatella
	Turbo castanea	chestnut turban
Vertigo hebardi	Keys vertigo
Vexillum albocinctum