cone shells – Seashells by Millhill

by Pam

The Alphabet Cone Shell

Cone shells are fairly small shells that are shaped like – can you imagine? – a cone. Think of a pointed ice cream cone – a sugar cone – without an opening for the ice cream. Instead you will see a tight, fairly flattened spiral. They can be found all along the coast of Florida […]

The Alphabet on Cone Shells

Harlan Wittkopf has had 35 years to find cone shells on the beaches of Sanibel Island and he has quite a nice collection of Alphabet cones. In fact, his collection is so extensive (alphabet cones are fairly rare) that he can spell out the alphabet with markings on his cone shells. He also has shells containing the numbers […]

Seashell ID: The Strawberry Conch

Here is your seashell lesson for the day. This shell is one of my most interesting of my “Gastropods” or shells in one piece… interesting to me anyway because of the pretty color inside. I just recently discovered that it’s called a Strawberry Conch. However the picture I found online doesn’t look exactly like mine. […]