Date: 20/03/2021 21:12:39
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1712943
Subject: Seashell ID

I bought this at a shop that sells shells by the sea shore.

Any ideas? or even better, any taxonomy guide. A volute?

Looking up the web, it looks superficially like Scaphella junonia
But differs in shape, pattern and colour from that.


Shell Scaphella junonia from Florida shown below.

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:22:16
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1712946
Subject: re: Seashell ID

I’ll thumb through my copy of What Shell is That? by Neville Coleman.

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:25:33
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1712951
Subject: re: Seashell ID

Bubblecar said:


I’ll thumb through my copy of What Shell is That? by Neville Coleman.

Thanks :-)

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:26:39
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1712952
Subject: re: Seashell ID

Here you go, it’s a mitre shell, probably a cardinal or episcopal.

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:32:24
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1712955
Subject: re: Seashell ID

Bubblecar said:


Here you go, it’s a mitre shell, probably a cardinal or episcopal.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra_mitra

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:48:11
From: Michael V
ID: 1712964
Subject: re: Seashell ID

mollwollfumble said:


I bought this at a shop that sells shells by the sea shore.

Any ideas? or even better, any taxonomy guide. A volute?

Looking up the web, it looks superficially like Scaphella junonia
But differs in shape, pattern and colour from that.


Shell Scaphella junonia from Florida shown below.


Looks like a cone-snail of some type. Venomous suckers…

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Date: 20/03/2021 21:50:35
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1712968
Subject: re: Seashell ID

Bubblecar said:


Bubblecar said:

Here you go, it’s a mitre shell, probably a cardinal or episcopal.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra_mitra

That’s it. Terrific. :-)
So I was totally wrong about “volute”.

Found another image, off youtube, lowest shell in image below. Video didn’t fully identify it.

“Widespread in the Indo-Pacific, from East Africa, including Madagascar and the Red Sea, to eastern Polynesia. North to southern Japan, Wake Island and Hawaii, and south to Australia.”

Whew. Glad it’s not endangered. I wouldn’t want to contribute to seashell extinction.

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Date: 20/03/2021 22:05:21
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1712973
Subject: re: Seashell ID

mollwollfumble said:


Bubblecar said:

Bubblecar said:

Here you go, it’s a mitre shell, probably a cardinal or episcopal.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra_mitra

That’s it. Terrific. :-)
So I was totally wrong about “volute”.

Found another image, off youtube, lowest shell in image below. Video didn’t fully identify it.

“Widespread in the Indo-Pacific, from East Africa, including Madagascar and the Red Sea, to eastern Polynesia. North to southern Japan, Wake Island and Hawaii, and south to Australia.”

Whew. Glad it’s not endangered. I wouldn’t want to contribute to seashell extinction.


I was lucky that the Coleman book immediately opened at the right page. Spooky :)

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