ID Help, please

[mary ellen]

Please help me to identify these shells.

<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805195" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805195">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805195</a><!-- m --></a>
<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196</a><!-- m --></a>
I'm familiar with the scorpion conch, but these have many more spines radiating out.

<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805196</a><!-- m --></a>
About 6 inches long.

<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805199" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805199">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805199</a><!-- m --></a>
<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805200" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805200">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805200</a><!-- m --></a>
3 inches long.  Some type of auger?

<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805201" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805201">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805201</a><!-- m --></a>
<a href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805202" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805202">http://www.badongo.com/pic/8805202</a><!-- m --></a>
This shell is very beachworn.  Perhaps a murex?

Thanks for your help!

[paul monfils]

The second one does not appear to be a Terebra, but a Turritella. I'm not sure of the species. It looks like it might be one of the European or West African ones.

The last one does look like it "used to be" a muricid. :-)  No guess as to species.  If you know where it was collected, a possble ID might come to mind.  <span class="petit">--Last edited by Paul Monfils on 2010-02-17 16:34:14 --</span>

[dave r]

#2 looks like Turritella leucostoma. The Murex looks like it was Phyllonotus regius or possibly erythrostoma. These wouldal both be from the Pacific side of Central America to California.
Dave

[razgriz]

Hello The first photo should be Lambis millepeda, the second and third respectively Terebridae and perhaps one Spondylidae but for the species we have to wait other opinions

[mary ellen]

Thanks very much.  Does anyone know what the third shell might be?