Liguus fasciatus testudineus
Pilsbry, 1912
Collected at Brickell Hammock, Miami, Florida.
This specimen is similar to the the testudineus holotype and was collected
at the type locality. Brickell Hammock was one of the largest in South Florida
and is now a 2 acre park. Of the 13 distinguishable forms enumerated by
Simpson, none are found in what is left of the hammock. The testudineus has
a variable but distinct color cline ranging from melanistic to light color
specimens and predominantly white apex, however a few specimens with a
pink apex do occur within certain populations.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 50.8  mm   W= 29.8  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
Pilsbry, 1912
Collected in Brickell Hammock, Miami, Florida.
All are topotypes from the type locality, Brickell Hammock.
This series shows the distinct color cline from melanistic to light color.7
[Collection E. Power]

Liguus fasciatus testudineus (?)
Pilsbry, 1912
Collected North of Loop Road, Pinecrest, Florida.
This specimen is similar to the the testudineus.
This Liguus exists in a colony consisting of shells as in that pictured
and a minimum number of lossmanicus.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 50.6  mm   W= 30.2  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety castaneus
Simpson, 1920
Collected at Hammock #31, Long Pine Key, Southern Everglades.
This variety is found throughout the Atlantic Coastal Ridge
from Miami through Long Pine Key in the Southern Everglades.
Another dark shell exhibiting a distinct color cline from melanistic to light color shading.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 57.1  mm   W= 34.7  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety castaneus
Simpson, 1920
This series shows the distinct color cline from melanistic to light color.
The lighter color shells are from the Long Pine Key area of the Southern Everglades,
the darker one is from Cox's Hammock in South Dade County, Florida.
[Collection E. Power]

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety versicolor
Simpson, 1920
Collected at Osteen Hammock, Long Pine Key, Southern Everglades.
This variety is found throughout Long Pine Key in the Southern Everglades area.
It occurs in pure colonies as well as some mixed colonies. The type specimen is from
Osteen Hammock in Long Pine Key, very similar to this shell . This is another dark
shell exhibiting a color cline from melanistic to paler shades.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 51.4  mm   W= 28.2  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety versicolor
Simpson, 1920
This series shows the distinct color cline from extremely melanistic to light color.
These shells are from the Long Pine Key area of the Everglades National Park.
[Collection E. Power]

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety nancyae
Close, 1994
The variety nancyae is a versicolor exhibiting loss of pink pigments in the
apex and columellar area, ie. it is a white tipped versicolor. Predominance
of this white tipped form is localized to a few hammocks north of the
Long Pine Key area of the Everglades.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 50.9  mm   W= 27.1  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety clenchi
Frampton, 1932
This variety occurs in the Collier County and Pinecrest areas of the Northwest Everglades.
This variety exhibits a white apex sometimes with a dark pink or red first nuclear whorl
commonly called a "jewel tip" by collectors.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 50.3  mm   W= 27.2  mm

Liguus fasciatus testudineus
variety evergladesensis
Jones, 1979
A somewhat  recently discovered variety found in a few hammocks north of the
Tamiami Trail in Collier County. It is very similar in color pattern to some
clenchi specimens but differing in having pink pigmentation on the
first few whorls, the columellar area and parietal areas.
[Collection E. Power]
L= 48.4  mm   W= 26.1  mm