Southwest Florida Shells

by José H. Leal

Family Anomiidae

Anomia simplex

(d'Orbigny, 1853)

Common Jingle

Shell size to 52 mm; shell with irregular outline. Upper valve convex, strong, lower valve flat, delicate, with byssal opening near hinge. Color white, yellow, orange, silvery-gray, or blackish. Byssus is calcified and may be seen as small elongated-elliptical "columns" inside dead shells of other species (see second image).