Rare Junonia, zoila, mega sea urchin, helmet shells and so much more! My seashell collection

[@dzfossil1]

Great collection

[@JUANORQUIO]

WoW! That’s Incredibly Awesome! I Loved it! 🫶🏻❤️✨

[@LisaMatthews-d3s]

Recently found your channel and love it! I am in Alabama (in the U.S.). Please keep the wonderful shelling videos coming!

[@birdsflowers2289]

I'm blown away by his collection !. I'm in Missouri and can't travel, so I only find a shell now and then. Once, I saw two of the most gigantic king Helmets in a sunny rock garden. It broke my heart !.They bleached out, then the property sold, then the shells were gone. Sure enjoyed this. I have a trimmed Queen Conch with a World's Fair sticker from long ago. I Went to a beach once In N.C... didn't find much, a few live moons and tellins. All were very small, didn't keep them.

[@johnzelasko761]

Greetings from Georgia, USA! The cone shell you asked about at 21:19 is Conus striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) and is found in the Red Sea to SE Africa (Aldabra, Madagascar, & Tanzania) Mascarene Basin, Mauritius, Polynesia, and New Zealand to Hawaii. I just found your videos yesterday and have already watched over a dozen of them with joy. Of course, I have liked & subscribed. Along with my thousands of seashells from all over the planet, I also collect and display rocks, minerals, and crystals. My entire house looks like a natural history museum. And deep thanks for your respect of the natural world by not collecting living beings! This vegan would never consider doing so.

[@Icebikerwife53]

I have a book on Australian Shells by Wilson and Gillett 1971. The cone behind the Geography Cone looks most like Conus striatus, but if the aperture is purple it might also be Conus novaehollandiae.

[@Icebikerwife53]

I would like to know what the shell is on the bottom shelf, right front between the Campbell's Strombus and the Bruised Cone. Is it a Volutoconus or a juvenal Arabian?

[@johnzelasko761]

Regarding the pronunciation of the word "conch", both the k sound in "ch" and the "ch" sound as in chocolate are acceptable, and there is no established standard to be found for conch. I say the ch ending of the word as in "chocolate", and have heard the same on 3 continents.

[@birdsflowers2289]

I typed up quite a response, it got deleted just now. I'm in Missouri, so not many shells come my way. There's one on the bottom shelf toward the back of the shelf at the end of his video like a small one I have. Sure would like the name. of it, ha ha ! I know many of them, just not that one. I have no idea what waters to go by. It is white with dark knobs, kinda,' inflated with 3(?) spines at the lip of the aperature. Oh well !

[@kathy_beauty1955]

We pronounce conch as "conk"