16. Treasures – December Reflections 2022
How about some beach treasures from South Padre Island for today’s post?
Common Sundial, Architectonica nobilis
Spotted Porcelain Crab, Porcellana sayana
Lettered Olive, Oliva sayana, with Common Atlantic Slippersnails, Crepidula fornicata
Gray Sea Star, Luidia clathrata
Clearnose Skate, Rostroraja eglanteria –a mermaid’s purse, the egg case for this species.
Western Gulf Stone Crab, Menippe adina
Giant Hermit Crab, Petrochirus diogenes
Blackback Land Crab, Gecarcinus lateralis
Yellow Prickly Cockle, Dallocardia muricata
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shoreacres
Some of these I recognized, but that gray sea star was new. Have you ever read Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift From the Sea? It’s an exquisite book that I was introduced to in the 1980s. I read it every year, and dip into it more.