Studying your seashellsįirst, you will have to study your shell and determine whether it is a gastropod or bivalve, and identify other characteristics. Sometimes there will be photos of the shell at various stages in life, or different versions of this species. Look through the images on the class, order, and family pages for seashells that look like or have similar attributes to your shell.įinally, each shell species has its own page with more details and several 3D photos. In the shell library section of our website, we begin with three groups: gastropods, a scientific class including snails, whelks, conchs and limpets bivalves, another class including mussels, scallops and clams and other sea species, which are not animals with true “seashells,” but include other animals found in the water, like crabs and sharks.īy clicking to any of these sections, the collection will be further classified into orders and families, which are scientific terms. We are constantly adding more seashells to our website, so if you can’t find a shell right now, be sure to check back later! How our site is structured The bigger the book, the more detailed and more specific it gets with more species within the family or genus. Smaller books have a selection of fairly common and then some more fancy shells. Now, it depends, of course, on how extensive your shell book or website is as to whether or not you will find a match. They, of course, didn’t have the advantage of the references you have (they invented them), so you are able to start off by trying to match up a picture with your shell. You will start the same way Linneas and his contemporaries did, by looking at your shell and feeling its shape, textures and characteristics. The naturalist Carl Linneas used his curiosity and powers of observation to create the classification science and techniques we use today and that you will use now. You already have the equipment you need: curiosity your senses and powers of observation a website (or book) containing information and lots of pictures (photos or illustrations) of shells.
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