sinistral – Seashells by Millhill

by Pam

The Lighting Whelk Has a Unique Feature

The lightning whelk seashell (Busycon sinistrum) lives anywhere along the coastline of Florida. When I visited Sanibel Island there were many living whelks just offshore. I live on the East coast of Florida and have also found many lightning whelks – small ones – with hermit crabs inside. Don’t collect shells which are inhabited by […]

The Left-Handed Seashell is the Florida Lightning Whelk

Pictures and information about the lightning whelk marine snail which is a rarely found sinistral shell.

Lighting Whelk: The Left-Handed Seashell

On a trip to Sanibel Island, on the Gulf coast of Florida, in 1991, we were able to find many lightning whelk shells. Most of them were inhabited by the mollusk and were easy to spot moving about on the sandy ocean bottom. I had no idea what I was collecting when I […]