This is the only Strawberry conch shell I have and I’ve been trying to find out about it for a while now.
They can be all white outside or with marking like mine in these photos, but they all have a dark orange, red or pink inner lining with a dark brown or black border at the opening.
It is shaped a lot like a cone shell, but I don’t believe it is called a cone. I’m not sure.
Conch is the name given to a wide range of medium and large size sea snails in the Strombidae family.
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. Mine has the brown splotches which made me think at first that it was a cone shell of some kind.
But the inner orange and pink color really stands out and I didn’t see it in the Cone Shell.
Similar seashells are listed below:
Sozon’s Cone
Alphabet Cone
Florida Cone
Read more about Florida Seashells here where I have a list of shells I have identified.
