Shiny Atlantic Auger
Hastula hastata
Also known as Terebra hastata
Markings and exact colorations may vary.
Photo: Josiah Londerée via iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · cropped & resized · source
A short, fat, glossy auger in cream and tan, blunter than its slender relatives.
- Typical size
- 0.75–1.5 in
- How often it turns up
- Common in the right drift lines
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Empties are fine. Live animals should be returned to wet sand.
How to tell it apart
- Stout, polished, screw-shaped shell
- Broad low whorls with a spiral groove
- Cream, tan or yellowish, often banded
Where to find these in Florida
Beaches rated very good or excellent for shells. Each page shows today’s score, the best window and access details.
- Anclote Key Preserve State Park · Tarpon Springs
- Bean Point · Anna Maria
- Beer Can Island (Greer Island) · Longboat Key
- Boca Grande Public Beach · Boca Grande
- Bowman's Beach · Sanibel
- Captiva Beach · Captiva
- Cayo Costa State Park · Cayo Costa
- Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park · Naples
- Don Pedro Island State Park · Cape Haze
- Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park · St. George Island
- Gasparilla Island State Park · Boca Grande
- Gulfside City Park (Algiers Beach) · Sanibel
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