My primary interest is Florida micros. Those of you who collect micros in the field know just how numerous micros can be. I collect, freeze and examine at leisure when time permits. And, when I sort thru I don't like to see all the duplicates go to waste. So, I plop the extras in alcohol filled vials and in the past have offered them to collectors via Conch-L. Since we created LTS I've been offering micros to those who have previously responded and participated in creating the checklists here on LTS. The below checklist is a composite of the identifications of all those who received a vial of micros from Port Canaveral, Brevard County, FL, and provided ID's to LTS.
The following list represents the species identified by the contributors identified in the Key, below.
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 and the comments in blue are his. Post your ID's and they'll be added to this MASTER LIST. Where there have been recent changes in genus names the older name may be included in parenthesis to aid recognition. Some of the ID names have been hot-linked to images of the same name on the web. Unless specifically identified as one of the Port Canaveral shells, none of the images are of actual shells from Port Canaveral. These links are meant only to facilitate IDsKey: D = doubtful; MK = ID by Marlo Krisberg; WW = Wayne Wilson; GW = gwatters; DT = Dan Teven; LT = carolinasheller
Updated 10-3Aesopus stearnsi ?? (DT - "I'm not confident of the ID but it's the closest I can come at the moment.")
Alvania auberiana (MK)
Assiminea succinea?? (DT - This is probably a bad ID because I cannot see a microscopic spiral thread. However, Barleeia has a calcareous operculum according to Abbott, and this specimen's is chitinous.)
Astyris lunata (WW; GW; DT; MK; LT)
Barleeia tincta (GW; MK)
Barleeia cf. mexicana (GW)
Bittiolum varium (WW; GW; DT; MK; LT)
Boonea (Chrysallida) seminuda (WW; GW; DT; MK)
Caecum multicoststum (MK)
Caecum pulchellum (WW; GW; MK)
More images.Calliostoma euglyptum (MK)
Cerithiopsis academicorum (MK)
Cerithiopsis cf. academicorum (GW; DT)
Compare to academicorum images whose ID Redfern has concurred upon.Cerithiopsis flava (MK; WW)
Cerithiopsis fusiformis (GW; MK; WW; LT)
Cerithiopsis gemmulosa (MK; LT)
Cerithiopsis greenii (WW)
Compare to Florida Cerithiopsis Images. Of the hundreds of Cerithiopsis we've collected at this locale, greenii was never among them. In post 9/17 WW changed this ID to C. flava.Cerithiopsis sp. 2 of Rolán (MK)
Cerithium atratum (MK)
Costoanachis sertulariarum (WW; GW; DT; MK; LT)
(Note that floridana is a synonym.)Costoanachis sparsa (MK)
Crepidula aculeata (WW; GW; MK)
Diodora cayenensis (MK; WW)
Diodora meta (MK)
Eulimastoma canaliculata (MK)
Eulithidium (Tricolia) affine (WW; GW; DT)
Eulithidium pterocladicum (MK)
Fargoa buijsei (MK)
Fargoa dianthophila (MK)
Marshallora modesta (DT; MK; WW)
Mathilda agria (MK)
Mitrella dichroa (WW)
Great ID. This was a range extension the first time we found one here. This is Abbott's M. argus #2112.Nerita fulgurans Image2 (MK)
Parviturboides interruptus (WW; GW; DT)
Petaloconchus floridana (WW)
Petaloconchus sp. A of Redfern - #214 (GW; DT; MK)
Pilsbryspira sp.
Too immature to clearly distinguish as monilis (Bartsch & Rehder, 1939) or albocincta (C. B. Adams, 1845) (MK)
Pollia tincta (MK)
Sayella fusca (WW)
S. fusca is a very thin, semiglossy, translucent shell that would be unusual to find among rocks in deep water channels. Compare yours to Abbott's general description of the Genus Barleeia (pg. 78). Abbott indicates no Barleeia on the Atlantic coast, but Mollusks, 2nd Ed., includes B. tincta (Caribbean barleysnail) as does Redfern in his Bahamian Seashells. The one we've been finding from Pt. Canaveral and Sebastian Inlet we've been calling Barleeia sp. aff. tincta. In post 9/17 WW changed this ID to B. tincta. Seila adamsi (WW; GW; DT; MK)
Schwartziella (Rissoina) catesbyana (WW; GW; DT; MK; LT)
Often found coated in black in this locale.Stramonita haemastoma floridana (MK)
Triphora nigrocincta (WW)
Compare to Marshallora modesta, which is the only Triphora we've found here so far. In post 9/17 WW changed this ID to M. modesta.Triphora sp. Redfern #290 (GW)
Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) abrupta (MK)
Turbonilla levis (WW)
Vitreolina arcuata (MK)
BivalviaAnadara notabilis (GW)
Anadara transversa (WW; GW; DT; MK; LT)
Brachidontes exustus (GW; MK; DT; WW; LT)
Brachidontes modiolus (WW)
This is probably B. exustus, which is abundant throughout this local area, but never B. modiolus In post 9/17 WW changed this ID to B. exustus.Crassostrea virginica (LT - I only put this down because I have some strange appearing bivalve in my vial.....it looks like some sort of very very juvenile oyster, it has a small red brotozoan(?) on it as well....it's so small it makes the ID very hard to make for it since anything oyster-like all appear the same to me. I wouldnt think it is anything very uncommon, thus I opted for the most common species.)
Dacrydium vitreum (GW)
Lopha frons (WW)
Musculus lateralis (GW; DT; MK; WW)
Mytella charruana (MK)
Ostreola equestris (MK)
Petricola lapicida (MK)
Sphenia antillensis (WW; GW; DT; MK)
Be sure to click on the link, which will take you to Sphenia dubia. Read the writeup.Timoclea (Chione) grus (WW; GW; DT; MK)