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The Florida Horse Conch Printable Coloring Page

The horse conch (scientific name: Pleuroploca gigantea) is the state shell of Florida. It can be very large – up to 2 feet long! My photo above shows two empty shells that we found while boating on the river. Read more about finding that 17 inch, huge horse conch shell.

Please feel free to download and print out this horse conch outline to use for personal use only. Homeschoolers especially love these free printouts, and if you search this blog, you will probably find more information about these seashells and the mollusks that made them.

The outline below shows the Living Florida Horse Conch with (bright orange) mollusk inside and operculum that covers the mollusk.

Florida horse conch printable coloring page — Florida horse conch coloring page

Here’s a fun fact: The horse conch eats lightning whelks!

Worm Shells Coloring Page

worm shells and sea urchin — Sea urchin and worm shells

Help yourself to this worm shell coloring page. (Use freely except to sell). I’ve included outlines of four West Indian worm shells that are usually found along the southeastern coast of Florida and in the West Indies in shallow water. They are sometimes found clumped together washed up on the beaches.
They are not “worms” and get their name from the look of the shell.

worm shells coloring page by Pam Carter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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