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  2. Xenophoridae - Wikipedia

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    The shells are small to rather large (diameter of base without attachments 19–160 mm; height of shell 21–100 mm), depressed to conical, with narrow to wide, simple to spinose peripheral edge or flange separating spire from base. Aperture large, base broad, rather flattened, often umbilicate. Periostracum very thin or wanting.

  3. Ficus ficus - Wikipedia

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    Ficus ficus is an unusual shaped thin shell being somewhat pear-shaped with a long narrow aperture and four whorls. The spire is tiny. The shell may reach 5 ins (12 cm) in length. The maximum recorded shell length is 145 mm. [2] There is a trellis-like sculpture of fine striations on the pinkish surface. The inside is orange and there is no ...

  4. Shell jewelry - Wikipedia

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    Shell jewelry is jewelry that is primarily made from seashells, the shells of marine mollusks. Shell jewelry is a type of shellcraft . One very common form of shell jewelry is necklaces that are composed of large numbers of beads , where each individual bead is the whole (but often drilled) shell of a small sea snail .

  5. Seashell - Wikipedia

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    A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea. Most seashells are made by mollusks, such as snails, clams, and oysters to protect their soft insides. [1] Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches by beachcombers.

  6. Puka shell - Wikipedia

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    Given enough time, the tip of the spire of the shell usually also wears down, and thus a natural hole is formed from one side to the other. This shell fragment can be viewed as a sort of a natural bead, and is known in Hawaii as a "puka". Real puka shells are not flat: one side of the bead is slightly convex; the other is concave.

  7. Bulla (gastropod) - Wikipedia

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    The egg-mass is a jelly-like sphere, with the eggs in a spiral string. After the breeding period, there occurs a mass mortality of the animals, just like the sea hares. Bulla solida Gmelin, 1791 solid bubble. Distribution: Mexico, Florida, Texas, Cuba, Colombia. Length: 30–52 mm; Description: found at depths to 25 m; A shell of Bulla striata

  8. Echinocardium cordatum - Wikipedia

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    Echinocardium cordatum, also known as the common heart urchin [2] or the sea potato, [3] is a sea urchin in the family Loveniidae. It is found in sub-tidal regions in temperate seas throughout the world.

  9. Fasciolaria tulipa - Wikipedia

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    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.