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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.
Scaphella junonia is found throughout Florida to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. [1] [3] A subspecies, Scaphella junonia johnstoneae, is found off of Alabama [1] and is the state shell of that state. [4] It is named for Kathleen Yerger Johnstone, an amateur conchologist from Alabama who published two books on seashell collecting. [5]
A view looking north on the beach at West Gulf Drive Beach access point #7, Sanibel, Lee County, Florida. The whitish objects are all shells, and so are some of the brown objects. Sanibel's beaches attract visitors from all around the world, partly because of the large quantities of seashells that wash up there. Many sand dollars can be found ...
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.
Gulf Breeze - Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture shell ring. [75] Hammock Point - Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture shell ring. [75] Horseshoe Bayou - Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture shell ring. [76] Meig's Pasture (8OK102) Late Archaic ring, but little shell. [77] Strange Bayou - Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture shell ring. [75]
Off the coast of North Carolina, divers and local fisherman frequently find Scotch bonnets at depths of about 50 to 150 feet (15 to 46 m); [37] however, live specimens can be found in depths from 0 to 94 metres (0 to 308 ft). [12] Empty shells have been found in depths of up to 97 metres (318 ft).
Naples, Florida has a starfish problem -- but not the kind you're used to seeing.This isn't your average Patrick Starfish! These sea creatures are known as 9-armed sea stars, and thy look a bit ...
Fasciolaria tulipa, common name the true tulip, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae.This fiercely predatory species occupies a wide geographic area within the Western Atlantic and is known, along with the other Fasciolariids, for the superficial resemblance their shells possess to a closed tulip flower.