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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). Conches that are sometimes referred to as "true conches" are marine gastropods in the family Strombidae , specifically in the genus Strombus and other closely related genera.
Conch (US: / k ɒ ŋ k / konk, UK: / k ɒ n tʃ / kontch [1]), or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several different kinds of sea snails. Their natural conical bore is used to produce a musical tone. Conch shell trumpets have been played in many Pacific ...
Strombus pugilis, common names the fighting conch and the West Indian fighting conch, is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. S. pugilis is similar in appearance to Strombus alatus , the Florida fighting conch.
Live animal of the Florida fighting conch Strombus alatus: Note the extensible snout in the foreground, and the two stalked eyes behind it. Like almost all shelled gastropods, conches have spirally constructed shells. Again, as is normally the case in many gastropods, this spiral shell growth is usually right-handed, but on very rare occasions ...
This Valampuri shows small dark spots on its body whorl, near the conch cavity. These dots are of conch skin i.e. of periostracum in the form of small dark coloured pustules firmly attached in very small ditch or cavities, and difficult to remove. In case such periostracum pustules are removed, dark coloured spots still appear on the conch body.
In a new study, published May 2 in the journal Antiquity, researchers examine how sound traveled across the desert landscape and how conch shells may have been used as a way to bring communities ...
Strombus gracilior, common names the Eastern Pacific fighting conch, or the Panama fighting conch, is a species of medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.
The larval shell may have a completely different mineralogy to the adult conch, perhaps formed from amorphous calcite as opposed to an aragonite adult conch. [ 2 ] In those shelled molluscs that have indeterminate growth , the shell grows steadily over the lifetime of the mollusc by the addition of calcium carbonate to the leading edge or opening.