Identificaciones de hgleemd

Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda

Key morphological characteristic: Lettered Olives have smooth, glossy shells that are shaped like bullets that are commonly around 60mm in length.

Fun fact: The Lettered Olive is carnivorous, and uses its foot to capture prey such as small crustaceans and bivalves.

Sifted from a partially filled gallon zip-lock bag of shelly sand, and sorted under a binocular scope. Over 60 species of marine mollusks were identified. The surface has fine spiral lines, with 9 on the next to the last whorl.