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Lightning Whelk eggs

Busycon contrarium

Photo by JeKScience
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Field Notes

Description:

The lightning whelk is the mollusk most people would call a Conch. This is their egg casing, washed up on shore!

Notes:

I know it's not technically the organism, but still really neat.

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