Shells Collecting Recreation

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• Top/Science/Earth Sciences/Paleontology/Invertebrates/Mollusks
• Top/Science/Biology/Flora and Fauna/Animalia/Mollusca

• - A how to guide on cleaning, preserving and identifying seashells, sealife, and sanddollars found while beachcombing.
  
• - Virtual exhibit from the McClung Museum.
  
• - Personal site of Dr. David Touitou, with articles about shells, shell collecting expeditions. Many photos, including some of living seashells.
  
• - Description of several families and species with pictures of shells. Site in both French and English.
  
• - Shell collecting information from a South African collector. Site includes computer programs for collection management, landsnail information, microscope photography, and artwork.
  
• - Features photographs of shells from a personal collection.
  
• - Photo gallery of snail shells.
  
• - Collector's site with pictures of both live shelled animals and cleaned shells, shell show information, shell auction, and other resources for collectors.
  
• - Japanese collector's photo gallery and shell collecting and trading information. Site in both English and Japanese.
  
• - Information about collecting mollusk shells, from a collector in Tennessee. Also contains shell trading information and extensive links.
  
• - Information about mollusks and other marine invertebrates for shell collectors and professionals.
  
• - Site devoted to shell trading, offers listings for those interested in exchanging shells with other collectors.
  
• - Exchanging shells and information about Olividae and other mollusks.
  
• - Promotes collection-based research on shells and mollusks with emphasis on southwest Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Located in Sanibel, Florida.
  
• - Extensive site with shell news, cowries for sale, species checklists, and shell collecting links.
  
• - A forum for informal discussions of molluscan biology, taxonomy, natural history, evolution, conservation, and collection-related subjects.
  
• - Designed for shell collectors with a variety of interests in the hobby and science of conchology, and for anyone who has ever been fascinated with the beauty and diversity of sea and land shells.
  
• - Bibliographic information geared toward amateur and young collectors.
  
• - Information about shell collecting, articles, an extensive image gallery, an online museum, lists of land and marine snails, and collecting trip travelogues.
  
• - Webring with sites related to shell collecting.
  
• - Frequently asked questions about seashell collecting from the San Diego Natural History Museum.
  
• - Shell collecting information and shells for sale.
  
• - Information about seashell collecting, with articles, pictures, and living shells in water tanks. Written by collectors, for collectors. Site in both English and French.
  
• - Bibliographic material on famous conchologists.