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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.
Very rare Black seabass: Centropristis striata: Black sharkminnow: Labeo chrysophekadion (Hammocks Lake, Miami) [10] Black snapper: Apsilus dentatus: Blackbanded sunfish: Enneacanthus chaetodon: Blackbar soldierfish: Myripristis jacobus: Blackbelly blenny: Stathmonotus hemphillii: Blackbelly skate: Breviraja nigriventralis: Blackcap basslet ...
The lion's paw can be 6.4 - 15.2 cm (2.5–6 in) long and are nearly circular. It has a moderately thick shell with flattened anterior wings near the hinge. In fact, the shell of the animal is very bright and is known for its thick and knobby texture. Their colors can range from red to orange; however, some appear purple and even yellow in hue.
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.
These are seashells, the shells of various marine mollusks including both gastropod and bivalves. Each one was chosen to represent a maritime state, based on the fact that the species occurs in that state and was considered suitable to represent the state, either because of the species' commercial importance as a local seafood item, or because ...
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]
Seashells of Southern Florida. Living marine mollusks of the Florida Keys and adjacent regions. Bivalves. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 503 pp.
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."