Shells from Washington State, USA

Here are some of the shells we found in Washington state and Victoria, BC, Canada in June, 2005. There are some beautiful species found there! I used a Nikon D100, photographing in an aquarium.

	Ocenebra inornata, "Japanese Oyster Drill" This is an introduced species, which lives on an introduced oyster species.
	Ocenebra inornata, "Japanese Oyster Drill"
	Chlamys herica, "Pacific Pink Scallop" I was lucky to spot this between boulders in Victoria, British Columbia.
	Margarites pupillus Lovely little shells found among boulders in Victoria.
	Margarites pupillus
	Acmaea mitra. "White Cap Limpet Solid white shells, very elevated. This is the underside, showing the animal attached to the aquarium glass.
	Tegula funebralis Note all the tentacles, typical of this group of animals.
	Tegula funebralis This animal is black and hunkers down under its shell, so it hard to photograph.
	Mitrella species? A tiny shell found inside dead clam shells, it is very active.
	siphon of the "geoduck" clam, Panopea gigantea These large geoducks (pronounced gooey-duck) are good to eat but hard to dig up from their 2-foot-deep holes!
	Polinices lewisi with its egg case Bigger than your fist, this large predator lays its eggs under the sand-and-mucus "egg collar" shown beside Pat's foot.