Small Strawberries in Weird Costumes

Mokulele_Hawai'i · Post by **Mokulele_Hawai'i** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:06 pm

Please advise me the English names if you guys know. Thanks

Broken Cowry

Trochus sp. (various topshells)

This is Abaiang - one of my favourites in Mother of Pearl (Trochus niloticus) shell.

Strombus gibberulus

Juvenile Helmet (perhaps Phalium glaucum)

???

HERMEZ · Post by **HERMEZ** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:16 pm

That first one takes the cake!!!! How unusual

all the shells are very interesting--I cant help with the names the one resembles a strawberry top

troppo · Post by **troppo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:13 pm

Holy moly! Never knew crabbies would use a cowrie for a home, learn something new everyday

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:18 pm

Very cute lol.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:22 pm

I brought one tiny straw home in a similar shell to the last one pictured....

I notice that baby straws REALLY have odd tastes in shells.....totally different than the adults choose to wear. Adult straws always chose turbos. Baby straws rarely do!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:23 am

Wow! Those are the shells I get in shell mixes that I consider unsuitable for any species, and yet there they are on those little straws!

I don't recognize any that you didn't label, however.

Ryanstein · Post by **Ryanstein** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:09 pm

Wow!

Interesting shell choices.

Never knew any crab would ever try on any of those shells.

I have a Trochus sp. (second one in list with three crabs). Not sure where I got it, but I know that no one bothered even to look at it. Now I see that if I had a baby straw, they would like it!