Queen tegulaTrochidae (Top Shell family)South-Central, California, USAwww.flickr.com/photos/50823119@N08/6477932523/NOTE: I have not collected live shells since the mid-1970's. I believe that the animal itself is much more valuable alive than destroyed for its shell. It is for this reason that I will only collect beach/forest shells from deceased specimens.
Queen tegulaTrochidae (Top Shell family)South-Central, California, USAwww.flickr.com/photos/50823119@N08/6477936735/in/photostr...NOTE: I have not collected live shells since the mid-1970's. I believe that the animal itself is much more valuable alive than destroyed for its shell. It is for this reason that I will only collect beach/forest shells from deceased specimens.
Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-2.London :Printed by order of the Trustees,1884. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12067694
Le conchyliologiste universel, ou, Figures des coquilles jusqu' prsent inconnues recueillies en divers voyages a la mer du sud depuis l'anne 1764 /.Paris :A. Franck, libraire-diteur,1845..biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15873913Talk about a crazy shell! We think this Trochus shell is simply stunning biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15873913 #bhlib