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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 ...
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.
Crassispira sanibelensis, common name the Sanibel turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [ 1 ] Description
Seashells are usually identified by consulting general or regional shell-collecting field guides, and specific scientific books on different taxa of shell-bearing mollusks or "iconographies" (limited text – mainly photographs or other illustrations). (For a few titles on this subject in the US, see the list of books at the foot of this article.)
The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 13.5 mm. ... Distribution. This marine species occurs off the Florida Keys to Sanibel, Florida. References
Sanibel is an island and city in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,382 at the 2020 census, [4] down from 6,469 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The island, also known as Sanibel Island, constitutes the entire city.
Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, [2] is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.. This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic. [1]
An exhibit at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum about micromolluscs, showing some species from Sanibel, Florida The word "micromollusc" is used most often for marine shelled species, although a reasonable number of land and freshwater species are also small enough to qualify as micromolluscs: for example, the land snail family Punctidae ...