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Families: 37

Genera: 49

Species: 59

Total Taxa: 59 (including subsp. and var.)

Aliger gigas
Queen Conch
Amygdalum papyrium
Atlantic Paper Mussel
Anadara transversa
Transverse Ark
Anomia simplex
Common Jingle
Astyris lunata
Lunar Dovesnail
Bittiolum varium
Grass Cerith
Boonea impressa
Impressed Odostome
Boonea seminuda
Half-smooth Odostome
Brachidontes exustus
Scorched Mussel
Busycon carica
Knobbed Whelk
Busycon contrarium
Lightning Whelk
Callinectes ornatus
Ornate Blue Crab
Callinectes similis
Lesser Blue Crab
Choristodon robustum
Atlantic Petricolid
Costoanachis avara
Greedy Dovesnail
Crassostrea virginica
Virginia Oyster
Crepidula aculeata
Spiny Slippersnail
Crepidula convexa
Convex Slipper Snail
Crepidula plana
Eastern White Slipper Shell
Diodora cayenensis
Cayenne Keyhole Limpet
Dyspanopeus sayi
Say's Mud Crab
Eupleura caudata
Thick-lip Drill
Eupleura sulcidentata
Sharp-rib Drill
Eurypanopeus depressus
Depressed Mud Crab
Geukensia demissa
Ribbed Horsemussel
Hemipholis elongata
Banded Brittle Star
Ischadium recurvum
Hooked Mussel
Isognomon alatus
Flat Tree Oyster
Luidia clathrata
Gray Sea Star
Luidia senegalensis
Nine-armed Sea Star
Melongena corona
Crown Conch
Menippe mercenaria
Florida Stone Crab
Musculus lateralis
Lateral Mussel
Mytilopsis leucophaeata
Dark falsemussel
Ophiactis savignyi
Savigny's Brittlestar
Ophiothrix angulata
Angular Brittle Star
Oreaster reticulatus
Cushioned Star
Ostreola equestris
Crested Oyster
Panopeus herbstii
Atlantic Mud Crab
Panopeus lacustris
Knotfingered Mud Crab
Parastarte triquetra
Brown gemclam
Polydora ligni
Polydora Mudworm
Pyrgocythara plicosa
Plicate Mangelia
Siphonaria pectinata
Striped False Limpet
Sphenia antillensis
Antillean Sphenia
Spurilla neapolitana
Neopolitan Spurilla
Triphora nigrocincta
Black-line Triphora
Truncatella pulchella
Beautiful Truncatella
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Tumidotheres maculatus
Squatter Pea Crab
Urosalpinx cinerea
Atlantic Oyster Drill
Vitrinella floridana
Florida Vitrinella
The Indian River Lagoon Species Inventory is a partner initiative of the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce and
the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program.