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Mound House Happenings...: Creature Feature #21 - Calico Scallop Scallop Animal, Calico Scallop, Sanibel Shells, Molluscs, Sea Shore, The Underground, Creature Feature, Beach Combing, Time Period

#21 - CALICO SCALLOP (Argopecten gibbus) Either walking the beach at Newton Park or touring the shell wall forming the underground archaeological exhibit at Mound House, you will invariably find the colorful shells of this enigmatic little scallop. Rarely found in the shallows, calico scallops prefer deeper waters and inhabit anywhere from 30 to 1,300 feet of water all along the coast of Florida and into the Carolinas. Scallops are swimmers and mass migrations occur up and down the coast to…

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