Lightning Pitar
Pitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828)
Family Veneridae
The Lightning Pitar is a thin gray or cream colored shell recognized for dramatic cross-hatched red-brown lines extending from its beak. Note that the vertical lines extending from its beak are not supported by lines in the shell itself (see Cross barred Venus which has supporting shell lines):
Lightning Pitars
The shell is fairly common on S. Hutchinson Island beaches. For additional pics see: .https://jaxshells.org/fula.htm
Shell size to 20 mm; shell inflated, ovate. Sculpture of crowded growth lines. Umbones prominent, large. Lunule large. Color white or chalk-white with light-brown spots of tent-like markings.