This summer we decided, Laurent Kbaïer & I, to photograph Mediterranean snails. This fisrt dive was done at Porquerolles island, south of France (where we live). Weather in july was really hot this year and temperature of water was quite warm !We found our molluscs in 3 to 7 meters
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 there. We can find only main four species :
- the very common Cypraea cinerea (Gemlin, 1791) (Now splited in several sp. and ssp. like "brasilensis") - the common Cypraea acicularis (Gemlin, 1791)
- the very uncomon Cypraea zebra (Linné, 1758)
- the very rare Cypraea surinamensis (Perry, 1811)
09 august 2010 : New article published : Small snails from Mediterranean sea Part 1 (08th july 2010) http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_small-snails-from-mediterranean-sea-part-1.html
29 July 2010 : New article published : Conus hornii in Venezuela, by Alessandro Zanzi http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_conus-hornii-in-venezuela.html
29 July 2010 : TCC SPECIAL EDITION OUT : Danker L. N. Vink's The Conidae of the Western Atlantic http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/page_theconecollector.html
15 July 2010 : New interview : António Monteiro, author of the famous TCC ! http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_interview-of-antonio-monteiro.html
05 July 2010 : Seychelles Coneshells have been imported from old website http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1019
24 June 2010 : new article have been added in the beginners list : Seashells and camouflage http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1183
23 June 2010 : my collection page have been updated with pictures and a menu : http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=841
21 June 2010 : new article have been added in the miscellaneous list : Videos Of Cone Shells Hunting http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1177
21 June 2010 : new article have been added in the beginners list : Seashells'feeding habits. http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1174 Just need an english correction and it will be done :=)
20 June 2010 : Two new articles have been published : Low tide searching at 5 miles reef, South New Caledonia & 2010 Seychelles'Trip.
15 June 2010 : Terebridae from Polynesia done. I finished to import the Iconography "Terebridae from French Polynesia". Last file to update will be Conidae From Seychelles now. http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1020
14 June 2010 : Forum is working fine today. Dear all users, the historical forum (hosted by aceboard free service) is online again !! You may use it until we'll move all messages and accounts on the new one. Sorry for these 20 days of forum down ! http://205606.aceboard.net/index.php?login=205606
11 June 2010 : We are actually working hard to import forum. The new forum shall be avialable within 48 hours. We are trying to import users from the old one and if possible old messages...
07 June 2010 : Welcome on the new version Of Seashell-Collector.com ! Hope you'll enjoy this beta version. In a second time we'll make a fusion between the worldwide collectors database and this new site. Meaning you'll be able to log from home page. Then the last step will come shortly : import the messages from our old forum to this new website and so you'll use the same login for everything ! 2 pages have not been finished though (Iconographies : Seychelles Cone Shells & Terebridae from French Polynesia) David Touitou
First of all, latin names really "simplify" taxonomy, this might shock some of you ! But a shell (a vegetal, an animal or a mushroom) is always called by local populations by various names. This means that a particular specie may have several local names (vernacular names). We woul have then to learn all the different names, in many different languages, to understand each other... We still use binominal nomenclature since Linné and it is "universal" (worldwide should be more true...). The
Dear David, first of all let me state that I am very pleased and honoured to be interviewed for your wonderful website, certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting of all sites dedicated to shell collectors!
I have collected shells for as long as I can remember – and that of course encompasses most of the almost 59 years I have lived so far. As a child I used to search for shells whenever I went to the beach with my mother – my father having unfortunately passed away very young – and the tide was low
New Caledonian Conidae 
Mix of different families 
Mediterranean Shells 
