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Guylian (/ ˈ ɡ iː l i ə n /, French:) is a Belgian chocolate brand and manufacturer best known for its seashell shaped pralines. The company was founded in 1958 in Sint-Niklaas , Belgium by Guy Foubert [ 1 ] and is now owned by the South Korean company Lotte Confectionery .
Variety of Mollusc shells (gastropods: land snail shells and seashells). Closed and open shells of a marine bivalve, Petricola pholadiformis. A bivalve shell is composed of two hinged valves which are joined by a ligament. Four views of a shell of the land snail Arianta arbustorum The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) is the largest extant species of ...
The shell of this mollusc species has special significance to shell collectors because it was once regarded as the rarest shell in the world. For about two centuries between its initial discovery and the discovery of its habitat in 1969, specimens were valued in the thousands of U.S. dollars and generally only owned by museums and wealthy private collectors.