11.6 x 15.4 cm. (4.6 x 6.1 in.) ...
View A still life of shells in a wooden box surrounded by other shells, including turbo petholatus, conus imperialis, turbo bruneus and conus marmoreus on a table Attributed to Linard Jacques; oil on ...
May 1962;Cernohorsky!;sh. Wat.;eker coll.;check abino marmoreus; NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.
It's difficult not to be attracted to the exquisiteness of marine cone snail shells. And yet, the shell's function is obviously not to be beautiful, but to provide protection for its invertebrate ...