{"id":9334,"date":"2012-01-24T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=9334"},"modified":"2012-01-24T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:43:58","slug":"rare-sighting-mauve-mouth-drill-egg-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/rare-sighting-mauve-mouth-drill-egg-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Sighting! Mauve-Mouth Drill Egg Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mauve-mouth<\/a><\/p>\n

This is so wild. Attached to a SUNRAY VENUS CLAM, were fresh egg cases that these MAUVE-MOUTH DRILLS just produced!<\/p>\n

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

MurexKen<\/a><\/strong> found this fascinating nest just after MurexAlice had shown me those cute little MORTON’S EGG COCKLES on yesterdays post<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(hmmm- the “egg” theme continues, huh?).<\/strong>\u00a0I was tickled that he called me over to show me this egg case that I’ve never seen before. The babies look like little pods of pollen sitting in a beautiful flower. Mk and MA are quite a pair for finding the unexpected!<\/p>\n

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

I’m not quite sure, but I think the shell on the left was still laying some eggs. I hated to disturb them so after taking a few photos, we returned the mollusks and eggs to the water to make sure they produce healthy babies.<\/p>\n

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

You can see this one’s aperture with just a bit of the “mauve” showing around his body.<\/p>\n

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

Oh wait…. just in case you can’t remember what a MAUVE-MOUTH DRILL looks like when you find them empty on the beach, here are a few pictures to refresh your memory…<\/p>\n

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

Now you’ll see why they call it “mauve-mouth”. They have a mauve or purple in the aperture when they are alive or freshly dead.<\/p>\n

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

Out of all these shells\u00a0in our collection at home,\u00a0I could only find one that had a mauve mouth.<\/p>\n

\"mauve-mouth<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t find MAUVE-MOUTH DRILLS that often so to see live ones that are laying eggs was really pretty exceptional. I’m not sure if this would be considered scientifically \u00a0“rare” to see this out beach combing, but it was rare for me. Great finds MK and MA!<\/p>\n

\"mauve-mouth<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is so wild. Attached to a SUNRAY VENUS CLAM, were fresh egg cases that these MAUVE-MOUTH DRILLS just produced! MurexKen found this fascinating nest just after MurexAlice had shown me those cute little MORTON’S EGG COCKLES on yesterdays post\u00a0(hmmm- the “egg” theme continues, huh?).\u00a0I was tickled that he called me over to show me […]<\/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":[1343,1224,1555],"tags":[1556,1557,1558,1559],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egg-casing","category-mauve-mouth-drill","category-mauve-mouth-drill-egg-case","tag-calotrophon-ostrearum","tag-mauve-mouth-drill-2","tag-mollusk-egg-case","tag-southwest-florida-nature","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-2qy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","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=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}