What is this?

[clgsamson]

Took this pic at twin rocks, Anilao, Philippines during a night dive. What is this?

 

[serambin]

Well off the top of my head I think . . .

Phylum - Mollusca
Sub Phylum - Conchifera
Class - Gastropoda
Sub Class - Prosobranchia
Order - Mesogastropoda
Super-family - Strombacea
Family - Strombidae

And that's as far as the top of my head goes. In other words is a very pretty conch.

Stan

 

[knotical]

Or perhaps the volute Cymbiola nobilis.

http://www.gastropods.com/0/Shell_850.html

 

[serambin]

The apical whorls appeared to be too conical and the tubercles too pronounced, but the coloration, excepting the lateral striations are close.

Congrats,

Stan

 

[serambin]

How large would you estimate this individual was?

Stan

 

[archman]

The apical whorls appeared to be too conical and the tubercles too pronounced, but the coloration, excepting the lateral striations are close.

You wouldn't be a mollusc biologist would you? What's your specialty? Ha, I love anatomically accurate descriptors.

I won't even attempt to hazard a guess at this shell. Although I think I have this same thing in a jar... somewhere.

 

[serambin]

You wouldn't be a mollusc biologist would you? What's your specialty? Ha, I love anatomically accurate descriptors.

I won't even attempt to hazard a guess at this shell. Although I think I have this same thing in a jar... somewhere.

If you can't find the jar, you ain't got it!


Stan

 

[archman]

If you can't find the jar, you ain't got it!

But there are hundreds of jars, and hundreds of specimen boxes (this is the TAMU shell collection). Cut me some slack, the Indo-Pacific isn't my specialty. Although I do have a cone snail with similar markings sitting in our junk pile.

I find volutes more interesting than cones, however. Hermit crabs have an easier time using their shells.

 

[Diver0001]

Took this pic at twin rocks, Anilao, Philippines during a night dive. What is this?

Well.... looks like a honk'n big snail to me. (couldn't resist after all the techno-babble)

R..

 

[sharky60]

But there are hundreds of jars, and hundreds of specimen boxes (this is the TAMU shell collection). Cut me some slack, the Indo-Pacific isn't my specialty. Although I do have a cone snail with similar markings sitting in our junk pile.

I find volutes more interesting than cones, however. Hermit crabs have an easier time using their shells.

Junk pile!! I'd love to go through that and see what I could find!!