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This volute is often collected for food by local fishermen. The shells are also often used as decoration, or as scoops for powdery substances in local markets. [2] The shell is also traditionally utilized by the native fishermen to bail out their boats, therefore it is commonly called "bailer shell". [2] This snail is eaten in Vietnam. [9]
The shells have an elongated aperture in their first whorl and an inner lip characterised by a number of deep plaits. The family of Volutidae comprises a suite of large shells remarkable for their great beauty and elegance of form. The shell of species such as Melo amphora can grow as large as 50 cm (19.7 inches) in length. [2]
Seashells washed up on the beach in Valencia, Spain; nearly all are single valves of bivalve mollusks, mostly of Mactra corallina Hand-picked molluscan seashells (bivalves and gastropods) from the beach at Clacton on Sea in England A group of seashells, mostly bivalves in the family Pholadidae Mixed shells on a beach in Venezuela Hermit crabs inhabiting marine gastropod shells that lived in ...
Drupa morum iodostoma (Lesson, 1840) [1] (synonym : Purpura (Ricinula) iodostoma Lesson, 1840 ) (species inquirenda); Drupa morum morum Röding, 1798 [1] (synonyms : Canrena neritoidea Link, 1807; Drupa horrida (Lamarck, 1816), Drupa morum Röding, 1798, Drupa (Drupa) morum morum Röding, 1798; Drupa violacea (Schumacher, 1817); Ricinella violacea Schumacher, 1817; Ricinula globosa Mörch ...
Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. ... Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of ...
Tonna galea, commonly known as the giant tun, is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Tonnidae (also known as the tun shells). This very large sea snail or tun snail is found in the North Atlantic Ocean as far as the coast of West Africa, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean Sea.
Hexaplex cichoreum, common name the "endive murex", is a medium-sized species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails. [ 2 ] Description
An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 221-248, 257-276, 302-325. Reeve, L. 1850. Monograph of the genus Fissurella. Conchologia Iconica 6: pls. 9-16; Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada.