Southwest Florida Shells

by José H. Leal

Family Corbulidae

Caryocorbula swiftiana

(C.B. Adams, 1852)

Caribbean Corbula

Shell size reaching 9 mm, shell strongly inequivalve, with pointed posterior region, posterior region often extended by calcified periostracum; radial fold or ridge present, sculpture of irregular commarginal ridges, shell color white to cream-white. Internally often whitish, or with brownish, orangish, or yellowish hues. The shell in the image is a single articulated pair, part of a larger collection of loose valves of the same species found by Susan Hewitt in December 2016 at the Captiva side of Blind Pass.