Ponce Inlet is in Volusia County, Florida. There is no bridge over the inlet. Beach collecting can be good after storms.





This list integrates the list started 11/16/07. Contributions are solicited from all who have collected at Ponce Inlet. Just click the button, above, and post a list of your finds.

Check back to this post as it'll be used as a MASTER LIST of everyone's ID's with updates, corrections and added images. This list is moderated by Marlo (comments in blue). Post your finds and ID's and they'll be added to this MASTER LIST. Where possible names have been hot-linked to images of the same name on LTS or Jaxshells. Unless specifically identified as a Ponce Inlet shell, none of the images are of shells from the Inlet. These links are meant only to facilitate IDs. Each species name is followed by the initials of the persons who have found the shell at the Inlet.

Key: JW = Joel Wooster; MK = Marlo Krisberg; WW = Albatrosswtw; KC = Kevin Czaja; PP = Phil Poland;

mmmmmmmmmmmmUnivalves

Acteocina canaliculata Say, 1822 (WW)
Acteon candens (MK;
Alaba incerta d’Orbigny, 1842 (WW; MK)
Astyris lunata Say, 1826 (WW; MK; KC)
Bittiolum alternatum Say, 1822 (WW)
Bittiolum varium (KC; MK;
Boonea impressa (MK;
Boonea seminuda (Adams, 1839) (KC)
Busycon sinistrum (MK;
Busycotypus spiratus (MK;
Calotrophon ostearum Conrad, 1846 (WW) Have never found this species on Florida's east coast. However, Eupleura caudata is plentiful at Ponce Inlet. 9/24/09: There is an unidentified shell very close to both these species that has been found in NE Florida; by Harry Lee off St. Augustine and by Marlo Krisberg in Matanzas Inlet. See Marine Shells of Northeast Florida, Harry Lee, 2009, #509.
Cerithiopsis dominguezi (MK;
Cerithiopsis fusiformis C.B. Adams, 1850 (WW; MK; KC)
Cerithiopsis krisbergi Rolán&Fernádez-Garcés, 2007 (WW; MK; KC)
Cerithiopsis sp. aff. greenii (MK;
Ceritium atratum (MK;
Chrysallida buijsei (MK;
Chrysallida gemmulosa (MK;
Chrysallida nioba (MK;
Costoanachis avara (MK;
Costoanachis sertulariarum (MK;
Costoanachis sparsa Reeve, 1859 (WW; MK)
Crepidula atrasolea (MK;
Crepidula fornicata (MK;
Dendropoma corrodens (MK;
Diodora cayenensis (MK;
Diodora jaumei (MK;
Echinolittorina interrupya (MK;
Epitonium angulatum (MK;
Epitonium multistriatum (MK;
Epitonium rupicola (MK;
Eulimastoma canaliculatum (MK;
Eulithidium bellum M Smith, 1937 (WW) Compare to Eulithidium pterocladicum
Eupleura caudata (MK;
Fargoa dianthophila (MK;
Fasciolaria hunteria (AP; MK;
Fasciolaria tulipa (MK;
Gemophos tinctus Conrad, 1846 (WW; MK; KC)
Haminoea succinea (MK;
Hastula salleana (MK;
Ilyanassa obsoleta (JW; MK;
Ilynanassa trivittata (MK;
Marginella lavalleana Orbigny, 1842 (WW)
Melongena corona (MK;
Littoraria irrorata (MK;
Marshallora modesta (C.B. Adams, 1850) (KC; MK)
Nassarius acutus (MK;
Nassarius polygonatus (MK;
Nassaarius vibex (MK;
Nerita fulgurans (MK;
Nerita tessellata (PP;
Olivella sp. aff. floralia (MK;
Olivella mutica (MK;
Parviturboides interruptus (C. B. Adams, 1850) (MK)
Triplofusus gigantea Previously Pleuroploca (MK;
Schwartziella catesbyana (MK;
Seila adamsi Lea, 1845 (WW; MK; KC)
Sinum maculatum (AP; MK;
Sinum perspectivum (AP; MK;
Siphonaria alternata (MK;
Siphonaria pectinata (MK;
Smaragdia viridis Linné, 1758 (WW; MK)
Stramonita floridana (MK;
Terebra dislocata (MK;
Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) levis (MK;
Turbonilla laxa (MK;
Urosalpinx cinerea (MK;
Tectonatica pusilla (MK;
Vitreolina conica (MK;

mmmmmmmmmmmmTusk Shells

Dentalium americanum (MK;

mmmmmmmmmmmmBivalves

Abra aequalis (MK;
Acar domingensis (MK;
Anadara notabilis Röding, 1798 (WW) Probably A. transversa
Anadara transversa (MK; KC;
Angulus versicolor (MK;
Angulus texanus (MK;
Anomia simplex (JW:
Argopecten gibbus (MK; JW
Asthenothaerus hemphilli (MK;
Atrina rigida (JW;
Atrina seminuda (JW;
Atrina serrata (JW; MK;
Barnea truncata (JW;
Brachidontes exustus (MK; JW;
Carycorbula caribaea (MK;
Chama congregata (MK;
Chama radians (MK;
Crassostrea virginica (MK; JW; WW;
Cyclinella tenuis (MK;
Cyrtopleura costata (JW;
Dacrydium vitreum Holböll in Möller, 1842 (WW)
Dinocardium robustum (MK; JW;
Donax fossor (D. parvulus is a synonym) (JW; MK;
Donax variabilis (PP; JW;
Dosinia discus (MK; JW;
Dosinia elegans (JW;
Ervilia concentrica Holmes, 1860 (WW)
Geukensia granosissima (Sowerby III, 1914) (G. demissa is a synonym) (JW; MK;
Isognomon bicolor (JW; PP;
Isognomon alatus (JW;
Laevicardium pictum (WW)
Lioberus castanea (MK;
Lunarca ovalis (MK; JW;
Macrocallista maculata (JW;
Macrocallista nimbosa (JW;
Mactrotoma fragilis (JW; MK;
Martesia striata mm In situ images (JW;
Mercenaria campechiensis (JW;
Mercenaria mercenaria (JW; MK;
Modiolus squamosus (JW; MK;
Mulinia lateralis (JW;
Musculus lateralis Say, 1822 (WW; MK; KC)
Noetia ponderosa (JW;
Ostreola equestris (MK;
Parastarte triquetra (MK;
Parvilucina crenella (MK;
Perna viridis (JW; MK;
Petricola lapicida (MK;
Phacoides pectinatus (JW;
Pinctada imbricata (JW; MK;
Pitar fulminatus (JW;
Pteria colymbus (MK;
Raeta plicatella (JW;
Scapharca brasiliana (JW;
Semele proficua (JW;
Scissula iris (PP;
Solen viridis (PP;
Sphenia fragilis (H. & A. Adams, 1854) Sphenia antillensis Dall&Simpson, 1901 is a synonym (WW; MK; KC)
Spisula raveneli JW;
Tagelus divisus (JW; MK;
Tagelus plebeius (JW; MK;
Tellidora cristata (JW;
Timoclea grus Holmes 1858 (WW; MK; KC)
Trachycardium muricatum (MK;