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This is because Sanibel Island is one of the best seashell collecting spots in the world (comparable to Jeffreys Bay in Africa and the Sulu Archipelago in the Pacific). [4] The museum also owns a collection of Pacific Ocean cowries and cones donated by actor Raymond Burr , who owned an island in the Fijis , and who led the efforts to raise ...
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]
Apertural view of an adult queen conch Lobatus gigas with the foot, eyes and snout visible A shell of a dead Florida crown conch Melongena corona inhabited by a hermit crab. 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.
Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 92; Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp
Strombus alatus, the Florida fighting conch, is a species of medium-sized, warm-water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs ...
It still held a tooth, photos show. Seashell hunts often result in unexpected finds, but one Florida woman is being credited with uncovering a mystery when she stumbled onto human remains at the ...
Shells of Hexaplex fulvescens can reach a size of 60–223 millimetres (2.4–8.8 in). [2] These snails are massive and spinose and they are the largest muricid snails of the Western Atlantic (hence the common name). [3]