Shell Species
A small, brightly mottled Gulf and Atlantic scallop — the shell that gives Sanibel's tide line its confetti of pink, orange, and purple.
Argopecten gibbus · Pectinidae
Rounded fan roughly 1.5–2.5 inches across with about 19–21 radiating ribs. Highly variable mottled colour — pink, orange, purple, brown — with the lower valve typically paler.
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