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Limpets Slit shells

Abalones

Slit & keyhole limpets

Top shells 1

Top shells 2

Turbo & star shells Top shells 3 Top shells 4

Nerites

Sugar limpets

Cowries

Periwinkles Southern mud whelks Creepers
Strombs Ostrich foot shells Clusterwinks
Dialids Litiopids

Screw shells

Slit wormshells Worm shells Horse hoof limpets

Bean cowries

Egg cowries

Sand snails

Frog shells

Helmet shells

Fig shells

Lauberinids

Distorted whelks

Ranellid whelks

Tun shells

Coral shells

Murex shells 1

Murex shells 2

Murex shells 3

Murex shells 4

Trophons

Typhines

Pagoda shells

Buccinid whelks

Pisaniinines

Dove shells

Dog whelks

Spindle shells

Rice shells

False olives

Volutes

Olive shells

Harp shells

Cystiscids

Margin shells

Mitre shells

False mitres

Volutomitrids

Cancellariidae

Terebras or augers

Cone shells

Turrid shells

Copyright Des Beechey 23 July 2004