{"id":19711,"date":"2014-06-14T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2018-11-21T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:57:31","slug":"chimney-clam-beach-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/chimney-clam-beach-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chimney Clam Beach Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Aha! Another mystery solved. This is the little bugger that makes some of the holes in our seashells… a tiny little STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM. Remember the heart I found carved<\/strong><\/a> in this PONDEROUS ARK (from King Neptune)? Well, there must have been two STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAMS drilling into this shell to make that design or there was one mighty CLAM on a mission from the heart.<\/p>\n

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Either way you “cut” it, this is one little destructive dude of a STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM (Rocellaria stimpsonii)\u00a0<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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I was absolutely thrilled to see both valves of this CLAM together (I know, go ahead and say it LooLoo… I’m a real shell geek LOL)…<\/p>\n

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So we can have a better understanding of why some shells look like this…<\/p>\n

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In my\u00a0post What Makes The Different Holes In Seashells?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>, I wrote…<\/p>\n

“\u00a0… these bigger holes most likely were drilled by a STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM. Oh, What? You\u2019ve never heard of a STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM before? LOL Well, neither had I before I got so curious about what made that heart shape and found out that two separate drilled incidences by these clams are the most likely culprit. When I find a STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM, you will be the first one to know about it and I will post a photo. “<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Well I didn’t find one but MurexKen<\/strong><\/a> did! He found this FLORIDA FIGHTING CONCH with both valves of the\u00a0STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM still remaining in the crevice it carved out when it was still alive. This CLAM doesn’t bore into shells and coral to eat as a food source- it’s a Suspension Feeder so it captures food particles from the water somewhat like a filter feeder. It bores holes into shells and coral to use as a place to live… like a cozy little nest.<\/p>\n

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Great find MurexKen! Thanks so much for\u00a0sharing this with me so we can all learn such cool stuff about the the mysteries of our oceans.\u00a0Now that I know what this shell looks like, I can’t wait to find one of my own (along with the GOLD-BANDED CONE<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>of course). So catch ya later alligator, out to the beach for a CHIMNEY sweep!<\/p>\n

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Aha! Another mystery solved. This is the little bugger that makes some of the holes in our seashells… a tiny little STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAM. Remember the heart I found carved in this PONDEROUS ARK (from King Neptune)? Well, there must have been two STIMPSON CHIMNEY CLAMS drilling into this shell to make that design or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighting-conch","category-stimpson-chimney-clam","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}