Identification ? volute

[paul monfils]

Yes, that's my best guess.  At least three times previously someone has posted a shell found on a Florida beach that came from the Philippine area, or in one case from the area around India.  I myself have found two Indo-Pacific shells on the beach on Cape Cod, Massachuestts. In any tourist area by the ocean, every little shop has plastic-wrapped baskets of these kinds of shells for sale.  Tourists buy them, sort through them, throw away those they don't want, or the kids just drop them on the beach.  Incidentally, many of these tourists who know nothing about shells purchase these thinking they were collected locally.  <span class="petit">--Last edited by Paul Monfils on 2009-05-10 03:48:17 --</span>