The Liguus Cabinet

Drawer 1

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on No Name Key, Fl. 
One of the main characteristics
of this graphicus population is the
wide peripheral band.
L=  63.5 mm, W=  31.3 mm

ID#L0011 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on Little Pine Key, Fl. 
Differs from the No Name Key population
by having a much thinner peripheral band.
L=  65.6 mm, W=  32.8 mm


ID#L0012 Price US $75

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety innominatus
Pilsbry, 1930

Collected on No Name Key, Fl.
The innominatus only exists in a small colony
on No Name Key and differs from graphicus
by having more markings along the
peripheral band, on the base and having
a smaller overall size.
L=  56.2 mm , W=  25.5 mm

ID#L0014 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety osmenti
Clench, 1942

Collected on Howe Key, Fl.
This variety differs from graphicus by
exhibiting loss of all yellow pigment and having
profuse green lines on the last whorls. 
L= 57.6 mm , W= 29.2 mm

ID#L0015 Price US $75

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety dryas
Pilsbry, 1932

Collected on Little Pine Key, Fl.
This form exhibits the loss of all dark pigments.
Though occurring sympatrically with graphicus
on Little Pine Key, all specimens of dryas have
a total abscence of any dark markings and
there are no intergrades. 
L= 61.5 mm , W= 27.5 mm

ID#L0016 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety vonpaulseni
Young, 1960

Collected on Middle Torch Key, FL.
Variety vonpaulseni is very similar to graphicus
but differs in having profuse green lines,
is smaller in average size and is more elongate.
Occurs only on Middle Torch Key. 
L= 55.3 mm  , W= 26.3 mm

ID#L0017 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
form crassus
Simpson, 1920

Collected on Howe Key, Fl.
This is one of two shells collected on Howe Key,
in the "big" hammock, just west of Big Pine Key.
Both shells were collected a few days prior to the
arrival ofhurricane Donna. Simpson described
the type from one shell collected in
Watson's hammock on Big Pine Key. Pilsbry describes
the bronzy peripheral line,in Simpson's description,
as "apparently a green cuticular line and not corresponding
to the peripheral line typical of graphicus." It is doubtful
that Pilsbry examined the Simpson holotype.
Because of the scarcity of specimens, there is doubt
whether it is an established form or albinistic individuals of graphicus. The original holotype from the Simpson collection has been lost at UF Musum of Natural History
The form crassus remains the "rarest shell" in Liguus collections.
This specimen was personally examined and
vetted by Archie Jones and Erwin Winte
as a true "crassus" in 1960.
L=  54.3 mm , W=  29.2 mm

ID#L0018 Price US $ POR
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
form lignumvitae
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
This shell is from the Lower Matecumbe Key colony.
One other population exists on Lignumvitae Key where
it is sympatric with variety delicatus and simpsoni.
L=   57.5 mm , W=  30.1 mm

ID#L0019 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety delicatus
Simpson, 1920

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
This shell is from the Lower Matecumbe Key colony.
One other population exists on Lignumvitae Key where
it is sympatric with lignumvitae and simpsoni.
L=  57.8 mm , W= 29.4 mm

ID#L0020 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety simpsoni
Pilsbry, 1921

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
This shell is from the Lower Matecumbe Key colony.
One other population exists on Lignumvitae Key where
it is sympatric with delicatus and lignumvitae.
L=  59.5 mm , W= 28.2 mm

ID#L0021 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus graphicus
variety dohertyi
Pflueger, 1934

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
Found only in a pure colony, at the beach hammock,
on Lower Matecumbe Key. The variety dohertyi is now extinct
as a result of total destruction of the hammock
and the colony by the very severe hurricane of 1935.
This form is extinct, Archie Jones did not transplant
any specimens in the Eerglades Natl. Park.
(Ex A. Jones collection, I obtained this specimen from
Archie in a trade for several shells,
the dohertyi  were extinct before I was born !!!)
L= 46.7 mm , W= 24.7 mm

ID#L0022 Price US $250

 

Liguus fasciatus solidus
(Say, 1825)

Collected in Lower Florida Keys.
Few specimens of solidus have been collected.
The snail has been found rarely on various
keys from Big Pine Key, south, to Key West.
Believed extinct.
L = 55.5 mm  , W = 28.1 mm

ID#L0023 Price US $150
 

Liguus fasciatus solidus
variety solidulus
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on Stock Island, FL.
This shell is from the Stock Island colony, near Key West,
and differs from solidus by having a reversed, yellow,
banding pattern. The habitat and colony were destroyed by
land development, however some transplanted colonies
survive in Everglades National Park.
L = 58.8 mm  , W = 29.9 mm

ID#L0024 Price US $150

Liguus fasciatus solidus
form pictus
(Reeve, 1842)

Collected on Big Pine Key, FL.
Form pictus is only found in a small colony on Big Pine Key.
It is believed to be extinct in its native location,
but survives in transplanted colonies in the
Everglades National Park and other "planted" colonies.
L = 63.5 mm  , W = 30.4 mm

ID#L0025 Price US $175
 

Liguus fasciatus solidus
variety pseudopictus
Simpson, 1920

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
This form exhibits some of the characteristic markings of pictus,
however, the white apex, profuse green lines and
shell base color readily distinguish this shell.
Found only on Lower Matecumbe Key, it is extinct
in its native habitat but survives in transplanted
colonies in the Everglades National Park.
L = 62.5 mm  , W = 29.2 mm

ID#L0026 Price US $75

 

Liguus fasciatus solidus
variety splendidus
Frampton, 1932

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
Form splendidus is very similar to pseudopictus but
differs in having profuse flames and a dark straw
base color. Occurs sympatrically with pseudopictus
only on Lower Matecumbe Key. It is extinct in its native
habitat but survives in transplanted colonies
in the Everglades National Park.
L = 61.2 mm  , W = 31.9 mm

ID#L0027 Price US $75

 

Liguus fasciatus matecumbensis
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on Upper Matecumbe Key, FL.
This is a shell from the colony on Upper Matecumbe Key.
The matecumbensis together with form subcrenatus
are devoid of any pink pigmentation. Pilsbry considered
these two shells to be difficult to place in his classification
scheme because of a lack of definite characters referenced
to other color patterns within the South Florida populations.
L= 50.2 mm ,  W= 26.7 mm

ID#L0028 Price US $75
 

Liguus fasciatus matecumbensis
form subcrenatus
Pilsbry, 1912

Collected on Lower Matecumbe Key, FL.
Form subcrenatus was found in a small pure colony on
Lower Matecumbe Key, and sympatric in other Liguus
colonies of the Key except with dohertyi.
It is believed to be extinct in its native location,but survives
in transplanted colonies in the Everglades National Park.
L= 58.9 mm ,  W= 31.7 mm

ID#L0028 Price US $75