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Created 5/10/2013

Family Fasciolariidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Pleuroploca gigantea

Higg's Reef, Key West, 15 feet

FLORIDA HORSE CONCH

Common partially buried in sand among seagrass or coral at any depth.  Shell has a thick brown periostracum encrusted with coralline algae.  Attains 30 inches but most are less than half that size.  Florida & the Gulf of Mexico.