Author : Touitou David, 2004
French Polynesia offers some endemic species to collectors, but they are mainly concentrated in the Marquesas Islands. However, some endemics are not restricted to these Islands. This is the case...
Author : Fabien Goutal, 2003
Marie-Galante is a very pleasant island of the West Indies. It's just at the South-East of Guadalupe. I've been living there for 6 months and I came back with some cowries.
...
Author : Felix Lorenz
Often people ask me whether there was a place I recommend for making a shell collecting holiday. It is a difficult thing to ask, almost like "hey, Buddy, tell me the place...
Author : Jean André Detterer
Bonjour de Nelle-Calédonie,
Amateur de porcelaines nigers et rostrées voici quelques photos prises dans leur...
Author : David Touitou, 2007
During my last vacations, in the Seychelles, we had the chance to get our hands on a live specimen of the rare and endemic Cypraea hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder 1938). I can't be sure but It seems...
Author : Francisco Blanco
First publication : Hawaiian Shell News, New Series No. 297 -- September, 1984
C. surinamensis Perry with its mantle out. Photo - Blanco & Honker
MIAMI ––...
Author : Touitou David, 2004
Conus legatus Lamarck, 1810
Conus legatus , Iindo-Pacific specie, is a really collector's appreciated coneshell. Maybe for...
Author : David Touitou, 2007
Conus pseudoaurantius Vink & Cosel 1985, is usually found in the "Grenadines" (West indies).
I personnally collected live specimens of Conus pseudoaurantius when I traveled...
Author : Kevin Whittington, 2002
The weekend was shaping up well for our church youth camp. The weather was calm with a light northerly wind blowing; however the tides were only about 0.9m, so I wasn't expecting to find...
Author : Serge Rolland, 2005
This march 17th 2005, while night scuba outside the reef, around 12m of water, Patrick DELESTE (a non-collector friend) and I have seen a rare thing in the natural habitat : a cone shell (Conus aulicus ) attacking...
Author : Touitou David, 2003
During september 2003, I had the chance to fly from Tahiti to New Caledonia Island, a wonderful shell collecting spot.
This was my first trip there, on the amazing...
Author : David Touitou & Serge Rolland, 2006
This is a rather small complex compared to other ones like Conus magnificus-episcopatus. But many of us get sometimes confused in front of some strange specimens. Even if I do...
Author : Anthony (flybones@bellsouth.net ), 2003
Just a week ago i came back from Marco Island Florida and i collected over 100 shells.
Iall found them while snorkeling from 3 to 5 feet of water and most of them...
Author : David Touitou, 2006
Conus marmoreus "bastard" 33.7 mm
Second trip to New-Caledonia - Christmas 2005 Family trip but still hunting for Cone shells... That's the second time...
Author : Gene Everson All photos were taken by Charlotte Lloyd, June 1996
If you are like me, you find it disappointing to read about a shell trip to a wonderful sounding marine area, only to find it is 90%...
Author : David Touitou, 2004
I decided to write this article, due to my anger over the disappearance of our seashells...
A strange phenomenon must have happened here, but which one ? Of course, everywhere around the world,...
Author : David Touitou, Pictures : Laurent Kbaïer, 2007
In September (2007) we decided, Laurent and I to night scuba around Hyères. We made 3 night dives already and we have...
Author : Touitou David, 2000
The sunday 22th (2001), in la Martinique island (french caribbean), we had a really fantastic wether.
Usually this is the month of those ling and huge rains... Today not ! A top shiny day with no cloud and
no...
Author : Touitou David, 2004
Shells wich will be treated is this article :
Conus lividus
Hwass in Bruguière, 1792
Conus frigidus
Lamarck,...
Author : David Touitou, Pictures : Laurent Kbaïer, 2007
During this dive,19th august 2007 with my team mate Laurent Kbaïer (http://www.bluesun.fr...
Author : David Touitou, 2001
I met a collector, specialized in conidae from Caribbean. In fact, he is a specialist
of the C. daucus complex. I was able to take a few shots from his personal collection.
I did not have the time to...
Author : Touitou David, 2002
Updated : 03 March 2016
FIRST TRIP (2002)
We started the cruise in the harbor of Marin in Martinique. Then, we went south toward St. Lucia island where we staid a night in Soufirère bay. After...
Author : Roger Rault, 2000
This article is not a scientific one. It is an amateur work and is exclusively built with my collection material. It is probable, if not sure, that the Miters specialists will find some errors....
Author : Touitou David, 2005
FRENCH POLYNESIA
In French Polynesia, we have two variations of Conus textile Linné, 1758. The first one which I called "classic variation" represent the...
Author : David Touitou, 2010
This summer we decided, Laurent Kbaïer & I, to photograph Mediterranean snails. This fisrt dive was done at Porquerolles island, south of France...
Author : Touitou David, 2006
A. Habitat, Rareté et répartition
Taille moyennes locales : 35 mm à 50 mm
Conus regius , espèce de la zone caraïbe, est classée parmi...
Author : Touitou David, 2001
Updated : 03 March 2016
I had the chance to observe many Conus regius Gmelin, 1791 & Conus cedonulli Linnaeus, 1767 in my aquarium and manage to find...
Author : Le Béon Roger, 2000
Download the full document ( MS Word doc. )
AVERTISSEMENT
Cette page n'a aucune prétention scientifique . Elle est le résultat d'une...
Author : Touitou David, 2007
The Seychelles, one of the last paradise on earth, host many of the Indian Ocean Sea Shells species. Some particularities occurs there though. The islands host the beautiful pinkish Cypraea hirundo...
Author : David Touitou, Pictures : Laurent Kbaïer, 2007
It's Winter time here (South Of France), by the way the weather is not that bad and temperatures are still cool. We decide to go scuba. The team will gather Laurent...
Author : Touitou David, 2001
I have been collected Martinique cowries since 7 months now. Of course Caribbean Sea is not THE spot to look out for this family. The Cypraeidae family is very poorly represented...
Author : Cecilia F. Morett, 2004
I've "worked" on a shrimp boat as a striker (deck hand) every chance I get. I say "work", because although at times the work is very physical and all of my 127...
Author : Roger Le Béon, 2009
A new marginella from M. glabella group / Une Nouvelle marginelle du complexe M. glabella
"Marginella cf. desjardini"
Abstrac
This new...
Author : Fabien Goutal, 2002
The Chelycypraea group (one species, C. testudinaria ) can clearly be linked with the Trona group (one species, C. stercoraria ), for instance, thanks to some features of the shell. Amongst...
Author : Touitou David, 2003
First, I would like to come back on a few points concerning this lovely specie named "recently" as Conus boui (from Mr Bou's name) by Mr Da Motta in 1988...
Author : Touitou David, 1999-2000
This is a sum up of the several different articles I wrote about this species during 1999 and 2000.
December 1999
I wanted to try to have some living cowries in an aquarium. As I live in south...
Author : Touitou David, 2003
It is the second time I am looking for coneshells in Seychelles archipelago. This time i was able to catch three new species : Conus aulicus, Conus pennaceus & Conus gubernator .
Conus...
Author : Felix Lorenz, with Jana Kratzsch, 2000
Welcome
This site shows the results of our research carried out along the South coast of Sri Lanka between March 1998 and January 2000. The shells shown here all come from beaches...
Author : Lyle Therriault, 2004
In my collections of conus I have quite a few "freak" specimens. I consider freak specimens to be those with characteristics that are not comparable with typical specimens. This...
Author : David Touitou, 2007
Conus pseudoaurantius Vink & Cosel 1985, is usually found in the "Grenadines" (West indies).
I personnally collected live specimens of Conus pseudoaurantius when I traveled...
Author : Touitou David, 2000
As we were staying since end of february in la Martinique Island (french caribbean), we
decided to go give a visit to our friends in Venezuela in june 2001.
They live in Puerto la Cruz,...
Author : Mrs Charlotte Lloyd, 2004
This was my first visit to the tropical islands of French Polynesia and I really looked forward to the trip. My traveling companions were Wayne Harland and Gene Everson. They are well-known...
Author : Jean-Pierre Barbier, 2008, http://www.topseashells.com/
Cypraea (Lyncina) leucodon Broderip, 1828
Cypraea (Lyncina) leucodon Broderip, 1828
Cypraea (Lyncina)...
Author : Le Béon Roger, 2001
A. The Environment
B. The Landscapes
C. The Cone shells
D. ICONOGRAPHY & DISCUSSION
E. Comments
This article shows cones I have...
Vincent Crayssac, 2010
Author...
By Virginia Enos, 2012
Spectacular places attract artists and I suppose that is one reason that I ended up making Hawaii my home. My childhood was spent fishing on the great rivers of northern California and that played a large part...
Author : Michel Balleton & Patrick Marti, 2012
Dear visitors, here are some nice live shell pictures that come from French Polynesia ! Many thanks to Michel & Patrick for sharing their recent finds.
Bursa asperrima...
Author : Ronnie Watt, South Africa, 2005
The author invites comments from readers. Send e-mail to: clumber@telkomsa.net
(The following text was adapted from the original publication in Xenophora, October...
Author : David Touitou, 2014
Dear all collectors,
You might have bought the recent publication fo Dr Alan Khon : "Conus of the Southeastern united and Caribbean" publishid in 2014 by Princeton
University Press. Several...
Author : David Touitou, 2011
These 19 days spent in the Seychelles with my family allowed me to seek for shells again. That's always an extreme pleasure to flip dead coral plates (and flip them...
VENOMICS à Tahiti
A la recherche des Conidae de Polynésie Française
David Touitou et Pierre Escoubas, 2013
English translation and more pictures can be found in the TCC (The...
Author : Touitou David, 2011
Le 26 et 27 février 2011 s'est déroulée à La Garde, une fois encore, le magnifique salon du coquillage (et du mineral). L'organisation est comme chaque année parfaite....
Author : DAVID TOUITOU, updated 02th-october-2012
This late september, the second International CONE MEETING have been organized in La Rochelle's National History Museum (France).
The meeting's...
Author : David Touitou, 2009
During this summer, we manage with my mate Laurent, underwater amateur photographer,to make some shots while diving along with the mediterranean cowrie : The famous...
Author : Ronnie Watt, South Africa, 2005
Forms of cribraria comma (Perry 1811) and of esontropia francescoi (Lorenz 2002) and a description of esontropia francescoi form mainland.
...
Author : Touitou David, 28 April 2010
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We flought strait...
Author : Alessandro Zanzi, 2010
I live in Varese (Italy), where I was born in 1957. I started collecting shells when I was young. Recently I begin to collect fossil conus : in my collection I have over 140 species of fossil...
Author : Patrick Marti, 2010
Les conditions de logement , de circulation , les repas dans la rue , à l’appartement et dans les restos, le lever du soleil de la terrasse , l’apero dans le jacuzzi ,...
...
Author : Patrick Marti, 2011
1ére étape Nosy Be
Un grand bonheur de retrouver Mada , rien ou presque n'a changé après 4 ans d'absence....
Author : Touitou David, 2006
A. Conus textile variation from Tuamotu could extend the range of Conus textile f. verriculum Reeve, 1843
- A. 1. General informations
- A. 2. ...
Author : Michel Balleton, September 2014
Il y a des jours où la chance vous sourit...
Par une belle matinée en ce mercredi 27 aout, après une plongée au milieu de la passe de Pueu, nous...
Conus (Darioconus ) pennaceus Born, 1778 des Seychelles
Publié : Xenophora N°149 : January 2015
Voilà une espèce dont la variabilité n’est plus à...
2 Days at Sanibel island (Florida) : Extreme Low Tide
Author : Touitou David, april 2015
Last december 2014 we had the chance to visit Florida (USA). This was a real great family trip. We spend 14 days there...
2015 : Voyage aux Seychelles
Ou la malédiction du passeport
Author : David Touitou
First published in XENOPHORA journal n°153 (Jan-Feb-March 2016)
Images have been extracted from GoProHero...
Author : Touitou David, 2008
Le 01 et 02 mars 2008, s'est déroulé le quatorzième Salon du Coquillage dans la grande salle de la maison communale Gérard Philipe...
Author : David Touitou, 2010
Le 27 et 28 février 2010, s'est déroulé le seizième Salon du Coquillage dans la grande salle de la maison communale Gérard Philipe de La Garde...
Interview of Mr Giancarlo Paganelli, 2008
Author of one of the best online shells related database : http://www.coneshell.net/
Hello Giancarlo,
It is my honor to interview the author of coneshell.net, which is a wonderful...
Interview of Pr Alan Kohn, 2009
Professor Emeritus, Zoology
Adjunct Professor, Quaternary Research Center
Adjunct Curator, Burke Museum Co-Author of "Manual Of The Living Conidae"
Principal Investigator Of "The Conus...
Author : David Touitou, 2010
Dear António, it's a real pleasure to interview the co-author of the well known Newsletter "The ConeShell Collector" (TCC). When did you start collecting shells, and what influenced you to...
