{"id":2843,"date":"2010-09-19T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2843"},"modified":"2010-09-19T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:19:20","slug":"my-goodness-melampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/my-goodness-melampus\/","title":{"rendered":"My Goodness Melampus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eastern Melampus snail shell ......... (only 1\/2 inch big)<\/p><\/div>\n

As you know, I love the mini shells. The problem is I just think they are so stinkin cute I get carried away with how adorable they are and\u00a0sometimes\u00a0clump them all together as a group. Everybody loves baby things, right? I don’t clump the WENTLETRAPS and my candies (JUVENILE HORSE CONCHS) with them because …well… they are my faves. But I think I better start paying more attention to each different mini shell to give them their due respect. They deserve it! They are just as beautiful.<\/p>\n

I misnamed this shell pictured above on my September 14 post Many Mini Sea Shells<\/a> <\/strong>as being a Marginella. I’m not sure why I’ve always called it that but it’s not. It’s a MELAMPUS<\/a>. <\/strong>Thank goodness we have MurexKen<\/a> !!!! <\/strong>He commented on that post to very kindly let us know that it looked like a Melampus bidentatus. He says there four species of Melampus on Sanibel so, of course, all I searched for at the lighthouse beach was Melampus shells to find a few more.<\/p>\n

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Melampus sea shells<\/p><\/div>\n

They all look so different! I don’t think I found all 4 species but maybe the bottom left is a COFFEE MELAMPUS. I will definitely pay more attention to these little cuties and hopefully I won’t mislead yall to call them by the wrong name….. but then, this is how we learn, right?<\/p>\n

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Dragonfly on the beach<\/p><\/div>\n

Meet \u00a0more shellers on the beach ….<\/p>\n

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Samantha, Jean and Stephanie (Orlando, Ft Myers)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ashley, Amber, Holly, Nick and Margaret (Salt Lake, UT and Ft Myers)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you know, I love the mini shells. The problem is I just think they are so stinkin cute I get carried away with how adorable they are and\u00a0sometimes\u00a0clump them all together as a group. Everybody loves baby things, right? I don’t clump the WENTLETRAPS and my candies (JUVENILE HORSE CONCHS) with them because …well… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[29,527,8],"tags":[112,530,531,2066,444,533,2061,2137,2138,523,529,2050,528,532,71,80,28],"class_list":["post-2843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighthouse","category-melampus","category-sanibel","tag-beach","tag-bidentatus","tag-dragonfly","tag-horse-conch","tag-island","tag-juvenile","tag-lighthouse","tag-marginella","tag-melampus","tag-miniature","tag-murexken","tag-sanibel","tag-sea-shell","tag-shellers","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-wentletrap","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843","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=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}