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depth of 15' (5m) over a section of the Boynton Ledge (southeast Florida) locally known as Briney Breezes. For scale purposes, the background is a diver's glove. any help with id is greatly appreciated. |
NEW!! - Identification assistance page: For those times when you don't have enough clues to be sure..!
Note: there are still some neat specimens (well, their images at least!) waiting to be identified at the new SE Asian Islands Shells ID Page - why not pay them a visit??
.....Welcome the "official" unofficial Conch-L images site! If you are a Conchler, or even an unafilliated cyber-sheller, you are quite welcome to post any images of shells which you wish to show to others here, identifed, or even better, unidentified. Eventually i hope to have the thing automated, so you can add your own pix, but for now just drop me a line, and i'll make up a page for the images you attatch, and link it to this page. Be sure to include the data (ie, information) you have relevant to the specimen - locality, depth, habitat, SIZE - anything that could be useful to the viewer. I will leave things on this page for a month or so, then quietly transfer them to an "archive page", so that mainly fresh material is listed up-front.// If an unidentified specimen is given a name on the Conch-L list, I'll add it to the image's page. I would rather have this sort of discussion take place on the list (for instructions on how to join our merry crew, or just for more great info on shell collecting, see the COA website!), to save me too many extra emails, but if you are NOT a Conch-L member, and for some reason don't wish to joins but STILL wish to make a comment or tentative ID about any particular image, do feel free to send it to me, and i'll put it up!
NOTE: For some tips on how to make great internet - images, try the COA Image Tips page!
Cecil Bankston: A really nice Fissurellid from Australia.
Don Barclay: An interesting Costellariid and Miter from American Somoa - perhaps Vexillum purpuratum (Reeve, 1845), a wonderful Opishobranch ("bubble shell", ie!), and a GEORGEOUS Epitoniumfrom Tongo!
Roger Van der Berghe: A good batch of those neat little deep-water Philippine shells (Costellariidae and Mitridae for starters) for folks to try their hand at identification.
Avril Bourquin: Two quite unusual Cypraea from the Aloha state!
Craig Caddigan: Some good stuff!! 1) a nice Neptunea lyrata decemcostata Say, from Maine, 2) a Scaphella cf dohrni Sowerby III, 3) a fab little Latirus vatai Bullock, and 4) a WILD unknown muricid, taken by dubmersible in the Gulf of Mexico.
James Cheshire: N: Major Renovations done Nov. 13, 2000!: A very artistic shot of an Ohio land snail, A lovely little Pustularia, of the cicerula clan, a totally BEAUTIFUL little land snail, a crisply-done Haliotis virginea Gmelin, a Melongena bispinosa (Phillipi, a wonderful little Anachis from Florida, probably sp. nov. (with images of closest species for comparison) , and a great DWARFStrombus gigas L.
Tom Eichhorst: A beautiful unidentified Murex from Panama, and a little puzzle: is this Bullia tranquebarica (Roding, 1798)?
Andrew Dickson: Three closely-related and very beautiful Carribean Calliostoma,with good discussion, a TOTALLY fabulous freak Polinices duplicatus Dall, a lovely specimen of a beautiful Scaphella, and a DelightfulFasciolaria tulipa L. freak!!.
Ashish Gupta: A very nice olive from SE Asia, possibly O. lignaria fordi Johnson.(now identified as O.mineacea marrati Johnson)
Patty Jansen: A Truly Strange gastropod from southern Australia.
Kevin Lamprell:If his data is correct, convincing evidence that Conus coelinae truly DOES occur in the Phillipines!! (But is is rare!!)
EDUARDO MOREIRA: A fantastic, nearly completely black Conus bandanus nigrescens from Samoa, and a "half-lovely" Conus auratinus Hwass, 1792, also from Samoa.
Ross Mayhew: 1) A melanistic cone, from New Caladonia (where else??) 2) Two lovely forms of Conus ermineus Born, from the Cape Verde Is.. 0) a cute Turrid, masquerading as a cone, 3) What seemed to be a hybrid between Cypraea ovum Gmelin and C. ovum L., is in fact C. ovum forma palauensis Sch. & Sch. (from the Phillipines). 4) a Conus sp. - unknown (at least to me!!), again from the Phillipines. 5) The MALTESE FULTONI (which i actually sold!!), 4) some neat Conus cedonulli Linne, from St. Vincent., and 5) A land snail from Brasil that is "visually exiting"!!
Paul Monfils:A mysterious, INCREDIBLY beautiful Turrid (ok - i like this family - but it's STILL amazing!!) from the Philippines; A Strombus urceus Linne, that looks like it tried to be a straght pretzel; a mystery Brechites from Australia; and A very good image of what appears to be a Thiaridae, from Thailand.
Rosi Neufer: A beautifulSiratus - The age-old articulatus Reeve, vs beaui Fischer & Bernardi debate!
SE Asian Islands Shells ID Page : I am starting to get some mateial from deep-water (plus some land snails)Indonesia, for identification - some are quite interesting, so why not drop by and see if you can put a moniker on any of them??
Sim Swee Fhai: Some very interesting landsnails and marine gastropods from Phuket, a Lima from Mexico, and a selection of beautiful SE Asian Pectinidae.
Nancy Smith: 1) A GREAT mystery!!, 2) growth series of the beautiful Cypraea mauritiana L. - quite worth the visit!!
Pete Stimpson: (Large images now more byte-sized!!). A rare form of Cassis nana with ribs! Neat PI Bursa, Latirus a Melo to ID; All the forms of Conus thalassiarchus Sow., that you ever thought existed, and then some!!; A FABulousCyp. alexhuberti, from Tores Straight; An unidentified cone from the Dominican Republic, another from New Caladonia, a whole bunch of interesting Philippines cones for folks to take potshots at, a handsome trio of Conus generalis Linne, and a REALLY FREAKY bunch ofConus gloriamaris Chemnitz. Enjoy!
Dirk Stratmann: A mysterious Calliostoma, from either "the West Indies" or "Australia" - nobody knows, as it hasn't been reported in over a hundred years!!
Frank Walker:Siphonofusus cf vicdani (Kuroda, l990): a VERY elegant beastie!