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Lee, Harry G. (2009). Marine shells of northeast Florida.Jacksonville Beach, Florida: Jacksonville Shell Club. ISBN 978-0-9671254-0-4. OCLC 434869184.; Lyons, William G., and Harry G. Lee. "Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico."
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.
The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum opened to the public in 1995, and operates as an information and reference center for national and international scientists, students, and shell enthusiasts, particularly those who are interested in the marine, terrestrial, and freshwater mollusks of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.
Seashells washed up on the beach in Valencia, Spain; nearly all are single valves of bivalve mollusks, mostly of Mactra corallina Hand-picked molluscan seashells (bivalves and gastropods) from the beach at Clacton on Sea in England A group of seashells, mostly bivalves in the family Pholadidae Mixed shells on a beach in Venezuela Hermit crabs inhabiting marine gastropod shells that lived in ...
Marineland of Florida (usually just called Marineland), one of Florida's first marine mammal parks, is billed as "the world's first oceanarium". Marineland functions as an entertainment and swim -with-the- dolphins facility, and reopened to the public on March 4, 2006 (charging the original 1938 admission price of one dollar).
Donax variabilis Say, 1822 - Known in Florida under the Spanish word "coquina", is the common and colorful Donax species of the southern Atlantic and Gulf shores from Virginia to the Caribbean. This species is locally abundant on beaches with fine sand from the mid-Atlantic coast to Texas. Donax variegatus (Gmelin, 1791) Donax vellicatus Reeve ...
Florida: The top nude beach in the world is South Florida’s own Haulover, according to a 2023 study from U.K.-based lingerie and swimwear brand Pour Moi. According to Pour Moi, Haulover earned ...
Melo melo for sale at market. This volute is often collected for food by local fishermen. The shells are also often used as decoration, or as scoops for powdery substances in local markets. [2] The shell is also traditionally utilized by the native fishermen to bail out their boats, therefore it is commonly called "bailer shell". [2]