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These are not easy identifications. I will try a few one:
3- Turbo argyrostomus
4a-Cellana sp. 4b-Siphonaria sp.
5- Trochidae (aperture view could help)
7- Cronia sp
8- Cypraea annulus (erroded)
9- Trochidae (aperture view could help)
10- Clypeomorus sp (perhaps bifasciata)

Pierre
#2 Polinices sp.
#6 Cellana testudinaria
# 1 is too blurred and too worn to identify but is certainly a cowry species.
Hi again. I send 10 new pictures from Borneo. I hope a successful ID.
Thanks. Rafa.
nº1 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473661" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473661">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473661</a><!-- m --></a>
nº2 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473701" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473701">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473701</a><!-- m --></a>
nº3 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473724" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473724">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473724</a><!-- m --></a>
nº4 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473727" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473727">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473727</a><!-- m --></a>
nº5 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473735" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473735">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7473735</a><!-- m --></a>
nº6 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508124" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508124">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508124</a><!-- m --></a>
nº7 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508127" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508127">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508127</a><!-- m --></a>
nº8 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508128" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508128">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508128</a><!-- m --></a>
nº9 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508130" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508130">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508130</a><!-- m --></a>
nº10 <a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508131" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508131">http://www.badongo.com/pic/7508131</a><!-- m --></a>
#2  probably Polinices mammilla

#3  I would lean toward Turbo brunneus, though it is close to T. argyrostomus.

#6 and #9 may be juvenile Monodonta labio.  There aren't many trochids in that area with beaded sculpture.