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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.
Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails.These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, commonly called "murexes" or "rock snails".
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 ...
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 ...
Variety of Mollusc shells (gastropods: land snail shells and seashells). Closed and open shells of a marine bivalve, Petricola pholadiformis. A bivalve shell is composed of two hinged valves which are joined by a ligament. Four views of a shell of the land snail Arianta arbustorum The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) is the largest extant species of ...
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.
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Two individuals of Acanthopleura granulata on a rock at high tide level in Guadeloupe. Chitons live worldwide, from cold waters through to the tropics. They live on hard surfaces, such as on or under rocks, or in rock crevices.