My Collection :)

Hello!
here are the pictures of my collection! most of them come from around the region...

 First column: the nautiluses, cowries, murexes, figs, vases, sundials and one small ischnochiton. :) Probably the fav here is the orchid murex at the bottom-right corner. orange coloured shell from taiwan and cost me abt 7 SGD (NT $150), the guy who sold me the shell's really nice, all in all cost 400NT with some other seashells. Second fave, the miyoko's murex also from taiwan, 200NT :) the nautilus at the back was a bomb, $40 from mauritius...

 Second column: cones, turban, conches, melo, volutes, bonnets, tuns and a fan shell. The silver-coloured turban is the south-african turban, got it from my trip last year.. the majority of the cones come from philippines and a shop at shoemart, cebu.

 third column: abalones, tibias, fox conch, geoduck, tops, heart cockle, mitre/marlinspike, lister's conch and a babylon whelk. the other abalone (the grey one) is also from SA. the geoduck actually came from a restaurant in Singapore, Jumbo, hee hee... :) the blueish abalone is from NZ. Also red-mouthed frog shell :)

 Fourth column: spider conch, bivalves, frog shell , random crabs and mantis shrimps, spiny oysters and lazarus jewel boxetc. there is also a large meretrix (we also call it lala here :P) at the bottom-right... from kuching, sarawak...hee hee, for those singaporeans, imagine having it for dinner :P Do you see the common spider conch at the left side of the photo with a blue dot on it? It is the oldest seashell i ever have, 8 years so far (now i'm 15). Was the shell that sparked of the collection. Cool story behind it, the shell was buried in the sand and only the top was shown. However, got some GUT FEELING that something was there and YEAH!!! From Bintan, Mayang Sari beach... :)

 Fifth column: sebas spider conch, pacific broad-mouthed conch, helmet shells, bubble shell, philippines cockle... most of tehm come from China, Shenzhen 小梅沙. Oh, also got imperial volute. Haha, really good priced, the sebas spider conch from Hạ long...15000 dong, cool rite?

 Sixth column: pufferfish, giant frog shell, mangrove horseshoe crab, sand dollars, giant clam, knobbly seastar and guess what, a LION'S PAW!!! Ya, got it from SA, when the lady there sold it to me. My first ever carribean shell...hee hee, ultimate goal is to go there and spend 5 full days collecting seashells in Sanible or Captiva and other places... Giant clams all from our neighbour, Sabah. the Horseshoe crab is a local species. found the moult and dried it. has been with me for about 5 years now :)