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

worm shell art
Worm Shell Drawing

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Worm Shell Cluster

worm shells
Worm Shell Cluster

I picked this up this little grouping of shells on a Florida beach somewhere.   A lot of my nature finds such as shells and pretty stones are used to decorate the dirt in my potted plants.  

It’s an unusual looking thing, with lots of ridges and holes.  Finding this bit of shell prompted me to learn more about the creatures who made it.

 

worm shell cluster
Many Worm Shells

Worm shells are made by snails, not worms, and are given the name only because their coiled shells resemble worms.  This group is called a variable worm shell and lives attached to rocks or other shells in colonies.  When they are living, the color is brown to purplish brown, but once the cluster is washed up on shore, the sun bleaches it.

Worm shell cluster tube openings
Openings in the cluster

My piece is small, only about 2.5 inches long, but large specimens, measuring 2 feet across, have been found living off the western Florida coast.