{"id":5883,"date":"2011-04-19T22:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2011-09-26T20:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:09:29","slug":"periwinkle-lewis-and-beau-seashells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/periwinkle-lewis-and-beau-seashells\/","title":{"rendered":"Periwinkle, Lewis And Beau Seashells"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Beau's<\/a>

Beau's Vitrinella<\/p><\/div>\n

While looking for minis at the Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel this past week, I ran across a shell I never noticed before. This little guy is a BEAU’S VITRINELLA<\/a><\/strong> and it’s only 3\/8 of an inch big. It was near the area I was finding WENTLETRAPS, TUSKS, and BABY’S EARS so I was very focused on the small shells. \"Beau's<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a pretty little shell so I will definitely be on the lookout for more of them now that I know the shape, pattern and can call it something other than “cutie little guy that looks like a flattened\u00a0tiny\u00a0white button shell”.<\/p>\n

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

This is what it looked like on the beach when I found the VITRINELLA.<\/p>\n

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

I also found this shell that measures about an inch at the lighthouse beach. I thought it could be faded PERIWINKLE but just to be sure it wasn’t a tree snail or something, I asked my land snail friend H.L. Lori if she knew what it was. Without seeing the shell in person, she thought it looked about right to be a PERIWINKLE. Thanks, HL!<\/p>\n

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

This is another view after I brought it home.<\/p>\n

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

It looks like a MANGROVE PERIWINKLE, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

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

Since I’m on the seashell identification kick, I thought I’d show you this shell too. Let me make this clear… this is not a Sanibel area shell. This was a gift from Terri and Dennis who found it where they live… around the Seattle, WA area. I didn’t know what to call this one either so I asked my California shell friend Scott R. to identify it for me (thanks, Scott!). He says it’s a LEWIS MOON SNAIL and it’s the largest MOON SNAIL in the world. It’s about 4 inches wide. It’s huge!<\/p>\n

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

I found a great home for it right beside the shell sculpture Carla from Love Letters From The Sea<\/a><\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n

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

Terri and Dennis also brought quite a few SAND DOLLARS from the Pacific. They are just as beautiful as our Sanibel SAND DOLLARS but they don’t have the slits like ours. Thank you Terri and Dennis! \u00a0I found a nice home for them as well….right beside our CARIBBEAN CONCHS and other shells we found in\u00a0Belize\u00a02009 .<\/p>\n

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

While looking for minis at the Lighthouse Beach on Sanibel this past week, I ran across a shell I never noticed before. This little guy is a BEAU’S VITRINELLA and it’s only 3\/8 of an inch big. It was near the area I was finding WENTLETRAPS, TUSKS, and BABY’S EARS so I was very focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1062,2005,1293,47,8,2009],"tags":[1064,1067,1066,1065,1063],"class_list":["post-5883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewis-moon-snail","category-periwinkles","category-rusty-dove-shell","category-sand-dollar","category-sanibel","category-vitrinella","tag-beaus-vitrinella","tag-belize-shells","tag-lewis-moons-snail","tag-mangove-periwinkle","tag-vitrinella","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-1wT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883","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=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}