{"id":15859,"date":"2013-07-29T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=15859"},"modified":"2013-07-30T15:45:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:45:43","slug":"true-or-false-angel-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/true-or-false-angel-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"True Or False Angel Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cyrtopleura<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a special day for any beach comber to walk along the shore to uncover an ANGEL WING<\/strong><\/a> in the sand just waiting to be found. It’s feels like a sign of good things to come.\u00a0In Southwest Florida, it’s very unlikely to find an ANGEL WING with both sides still together with that little connector piece called a MESOPLAX (an accessory plate connecting the two valves) still intact but I’ve been lucky enough to find this one.<\/p>\n

\"Cyrtopleura<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been on my mind to show you more about these special shells since I showed you\u00a0this photo of Brenda’s ANGEL WINGS she found 2 weeks ago at Bunche Beach, remember?<\/p>\n

\"brenda's<\/a><\/p>\n

She also found this cool little STRIATE PIDDOCK<\/a>…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"brenda<\/a><\/p>\n

After seeing this unusual shell, I knew I wanted to find out more about the ANGEL WING family (Pholadidae -if your are the scientific type)\u00a0and thought you might be interested too…yes, it’s the same family as the ANGEL WING! It has a MESOPLAX as well and she found them with it still in place…<\/p>\n

\"Martesia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Martesia<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some of my ANGEL WING type shells together so you can see the difference between all of them. The ANGEL WING on the left is 4 inches. The STRIATE PIDDOCK is an inch and 1\/4, the FALSE ANGEL WING is about the same size (1 and 1\/4 inches). Then the MUD PIDDOCK is an inch and 3\/4.<\/p>\n

\"Similar<\/a><\/p>\n

We have found these MUD PIDDOCKS<\/strong><\/a> on North Captiva and Cayo Costa but I dont think I’ve ever found a pair together so I only have the one side to show you. They look similar to an ANGEL WING but with a pointy top. BTW- Steve R reminded that these are commonly called FALLEN ANGEL WINGS. Don’t you wonder how “they” came up with “Fallen”? Is it because it looks like when this Angel Wing fell from the sky, it got smushed on the top corner? Hmmmmm. However it got it’s name, I like that much better than calling it a MUD PIDDOCK… so from now on, I’m referring to these with the much cuter name of “FALLEN ANGEL WING”.<\/p>\n

\"Barnea<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Barnea<\/a><\/p>\n

Believe it or not, this next one is really called the \u00a0FALSE\u00a0<\/strong>ANGEL WING<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0because it’s more closely related to the SUNRAY VENUS than the “true” ANGEL WING. Huh? This looks way more like the ‘TRUE’ ANGEL WING then that STRIATE PIDDOCK does! Oh well, even though its “FALSE” it’s still an ANGEL WING to me.\u00a0Im sure you’ve seen these in posts after we go to Cayo Costa on our iLoveShelling Adventures<\/strong><\/a>. We have lots of them there!<\/p>\n

\"Petricolaria<\/a><\/p>\n

Notice the interior of FALSE wings are very different from the TRUE wings…<\/p>\n

\"Petricolaria<\/a><\/p>\n

So now you can see the difference between the ANGEL WING, FALLEN ANGEL WING and the FALSE ANGEL WING and the STRIATE PIDDOCK. Maybe we should just call the last one (striate piddock) a “WOOD WING” since they bore into wood? I vote for that! Anyway, arent they all beautiful in their own way?\u00a0Okay, I have to confess- I’ve seen ANGEL WING written\u00a0as one word and also two words… I’m going with 2 words- like it’s an Angel’s wing! Oh yeah, I’ve also seen it written “ANGLE” WING<\/strong><\/a> too heehee. Anyway, here are all four of them again to send you good luck as well.<\/p>\n

\"Similar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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