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SHELL IDENTIFICATION - Jersey Shore, Atlantic Coast, USA

Guys today we'll learn to identify shells you find on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. I'll show you shells I found here on the Jersey shore, and next time when you go to the beach you will be able to identify them all! These are Atlantic surf clams - they can be tiny or quite big. The clam meat they sell in cans comes from this mollusk. These are shells of Atlantic jack knife. Sometimes pieces of clam shells look like jack knife, but the jack knife shells have their edges turned up. Here are side by side pieces of clam shells and the shells of Atlantic jack knife. Atlantic Jack knife is also called a razor clam. These shells are called slipper shells because they look like a slipper - a house shoe. They also call them oyster pests, because they attach themselves to oysters. This is Eastern white slipper snail. Its shell is nearly flat because it lives inside the shells of other snails or hermit crabs. These are blood arks. These mollusks have red blood, that's why they call them blood arks. This is a ponderous ark. It has a squared-off shell that looks like a wave. These are Northern quahogs. They serve them in restaurants under the name littleneck clams. These are false angel wings. They do look like angel wings! These are sand dollars. These shells are American mud snails. They like muddy areas in bays and inlets. This is a bay scallop. Mud snails and bay scallops don't leave in the open ocean. These shells came here with sand brought to replenish the beach. These are common jingle shells. They make jingling noise if you shake them in your hand. My friends call them mermaid money. Here I have a bunch of them in a cup and I'll jingle them for you. This is a piece of a whelk shell, and this is a piece of a shark eye snail shell. These are small Venus clams - their ridges are concentric - they all have the same center.