{"id":20416,"date":"2014-08-11T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=20416"},"modified":"2018-11-23T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T04:07:51","slug":"different-scallop-shells-of-southwest-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/different-scallop-shells-of-southwest-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Different Scallop Shells Of SouthWest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can you tell the difference between a CALICO SCALLOP, ROUGH SCALLOP, BAY SCALLOP (top row), ZIGZAG SCALLOP (the FLAT valve and deep valve) and a LION’S PAW (bottom row)? I searched through our collection to find similar sizes and color examples of each species so that you can see the differences in shapes with the exterior (above) and the interior (below). But Ack! I didn’t mean to but I switched the ZIGZAG valves in the next photo so that now the FLAT side is in the middle and the inflated side is on the second row left. Sorry- silly me!<\/p>\n

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It’s so hard to show every angle but here is a way to see how different they are and how deep the valves are. On the top row right in the next photo, you can see how much flatter the BAY SCALLOP is from the CALICO (left) and the ROUGH SCALLOP (middle) and also how deep the ribs are in the LIONS PAW. I’ve written about both valves of the ZIGZAG SCALLOP before \u00a0(CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>) but not about how the\u00a0valve looks beside the other SCALLOPS. Denise Kisko (my buddy in the New York Times article<\/strong><\/a>!) asked me how to\u00a0identify\u00a0the second side of the FLAT ZIGZAG. In the next photo look at the shell in first row on the left, see the big shadow under the “nose” of that SCALLOP? It doesn’t sit flat on the table because it is so inflated and the sides spread out so much. That’s the second half of the ZIGZAG bivalve shell that fits with the FLAT side (middle shell).<\/p>\n

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This is how it looks when both valves are together when it is alive…<\/p>\n

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Here is a photo of a common CALICO SCALLOP, the deep side of the ZIGZAG SCALLOP (the other side of a FLAT) and a common ROUGH SCALLOP. Can you see that the middle shell is more “fanned” and the hinge area seems a bit smaller too.<\/p>\n

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Now you can really tell the difference by looking at the interior…<\/p>\n

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When I was looking at all of our SCALLOPS, I noticed how similar the CALICO SCALLOPS and BAY SCALLOPS look alike too. There are a few different ways to tell them apart but for me, this is the best angle to look at them. Now they look different, right?<\/p>\n

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So I hope this will help you just a little bit more to tell the different SCALLOPS of Southwest Florida apart. Top left to right…. CALICO SCALLOP, ROUGH SCALLOP, BAY SCALLOP. Bottom left to right… FLAT side of ZIGZAG SCALLOP (which I normally just call a “FLAT”, ZIGZAG SCALLOP (the deep right valve), LION’S PAW.\"calico<\/a><\/p>\n

When Denise asked me how to identify\u00a0the “other side of the FLAT”, her friend Penny Lang Yelverton posted a poem on the iLoveShelling Facebook page<\/strong><\/a> that she and Denise wrote while together on Sanibel. She said…<\/p>\n

“<\/span>Great month on Sanibel with my friend\u00a0Denise Sheldon Kisko\u00a0(NYT). We wrote new lyrics to the song My Favorite Things while waiting for a storm to pass at Gulf Side.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sand dollars, starfish and conchs of all kinds.<\/em>
\n Kitten paws, scallops are some common finds.<\/em>
\n Sunglasses, sunscreen and lip balm galore,
\nKeep you from burning so you can shell more.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Lions paws, tulips, junonia’s so fine.<\/em>
\n Worm shells and murex are also good finds.<\/em>
\n Blind Pass and Bowmans and Gulf Side seashore,<\/em>
\n These are the beaches we shellers adore!<\/em><\/p>\n

When the rain comes,<\/em>
\n When the waves crash,<\/em>
\n We don’t even mind.<\/em>
\n We’ll keep on shelling for our favorite finds.<\/em>
\n We must be out of……<\/em>
\n Our minds.<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy shelling!”<\/em><\/p>\n

I love this! Thank you Penny and Denise! You inspired me and made it fun to start sorting my SCALLOPS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Can you tell the difference between a CALICO SCALLOP, ROUGH SCALLOP, BAY SCALLOP (top row), ZIGZAG SCALLOP (the FLAT valve and deep valve) and a LION’S PAW (bottom row)? I searched through our collection to find similar sizes and color examples of each species so that you can see the differences in shapes with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[244,95,41,358,2045,2279,1692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-poems","category-calico","category-flat-zigzag-scallop","category-rough-scallop","category-scallop","category-seashell-fun-facts","category-zigzag-scallop-right-valve","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/calico-rough-bay-zigzag-flat-lions-paw-scallops.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-5ji","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416","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=20416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28763,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20416\/revisions\/28763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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