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Regular Unidentified Sea Snails - shelleddie - 10-28-2009

I do not update as often as I would like but there is a fairly regular stream of unidentified/dubiously identified shells at

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for which help would be appreciated


Regular Unidentified Sea Snails - paul monfils - 10-29-2009

The shell listed as Buccinidae is actually a muricid, Chorus giganteus from Chile.
The cone looks like Conus cocceus from Australia.
The Epitoniid looks like Opalia australis.