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  • Tags: gastropods

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White to milky white to pale gray gastropod shell. Wide conical shape. Nautilus shape on underside.

Carrier shells belong to a group of marine snails in the family Xenophoridae, a name that comes from Greek and means “bearing foreigners.” If you…

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Light brown with white patches. Spiral is mostly white. Interior cream with white edge.

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Mottled shades of brown with white. Pale purple around spiral. Small hole on spiral.

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Cream to pale gray with pale purplish-gray splotches. Ridge lines alternate with finer ridges around shell.

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Cream colored gastropod shell with gray tint.

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Pale pink gastropod shell with dark brown in crevices.

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Large white/off-white gastropod shell. Center of spiral mottled with brown. Underside streaked with brown.

The queen helmet is a large, heavy gastropod shell. They can grow up to 410 mm (16 inches) in length. Despite the species name…

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Two gastropod shells, one light brown and one cream colored. White bottom tips.

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Varying shades of brown with cream color. Spiral is white mottled with brown.

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Tan colored snail shell. Lighter at inner edge of spiral.
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