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The inner and outer lips are glossy and marked by raised white teeth. The operculum is relatively small, only about 1/10th the length of the aperture. [6] The adult shell of this species can grow to be as large as 7 1/2 inches (185 mm) in length. [6]
The Registry of World Record Size Shells is a conchological work listing the largest (and in some cases smallest) verified shell specimens of various marine molluscan taxa.A successor to the earlier World Size Records of Robert J. L. Wagner and R. Tucker Abbott, it has been published on a semi-regular basis since 1997, changing ownership and publisher a number of times.
Auld Mound, or Yough Hall Plantation Shell Ring - Late Archaic shell ring, listed in National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [10] Barrows (38BU300) - Late Archaic shell ring. [11] [12] Bull Island (38BU475) - Shell ring of undetermined date. [13] Buzzard's Island Site (38CH23) - Late Archaic shell ring, listed in NRHP. [14]
Unlike most shell trumpets from other parts of the world which produce only one pitch, the Japanese hora or horagai can produce three or five different notes. The different pitches are achieved using a bronze or wooden mouthpiece attached to the apex of the shell's spire.
Conch (US: / k ɒ ŋ k / konk, UK: / k ɒ n tʃ / kontch [1]) is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point on both ends).
Smaller rings may be attached to a main ring, as at Fig Island 1 in South Carolina and the Rollins shell ring in Florida. Shell rings in southwest Florida are often associated with large mounds and other shell works. Shell rings in Georgia average 53 metres (174 ft) in diameter, and those in South Carolina 64 metres (210 ft) in diameter.
The maximum recorded shell length is 301 mm. [2] The shell of Cassis tuberosa is typically cream colored with dark brown spots. The dorsal surface will have fine growth lines and fine spiral lines to create a "canceled effect". [3]
Turbinella pyrum, common names the chank shell, sacred chank or chank, also known as the divine conch or referred to simply as a conch, is a species of very large sea snail with a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This species occurs in the Indian Ocean.