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We are proud to announce the publication of our book on Caribbean cones. One version (English & french) have been published. This is the result of a year of a hard work.This is a 333-page guide that will delight the beginner but also the specialist. 122 plates representing 580 specimens are presented to you. The book is in A5 format. It is easy to take on vacation. Of course, this book can be used throughout the Caribbean because many species are found throughout this geographical area! The texts are numerous (one for each species). Part is dedicated to certain identification keys for beginners. There is also a huge part about molecular analyses in partnership with the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (MNHN). Read more...Dear travellers, I am sure that some of you may have troubles on how to bring back your shells from your shelling trips without damage ! Well, my method is not the only one but I have never damaged my shells. Even if some shells (like Cowries, Oliva shells,...) are strong enough to travel without damage, I use the same method for all families. Steps are :- Use toilet paper to wrap your shell - Cone Shells : protect the lip first - Use tape to finish wraping - Use plastic zip bag (smell)- Use plactic box - Use plastic zip bag again (smell) [optionnal] Read more...If you have any question about this website, if you want to send an article or if you find a broken link or anything else related to this website, please contact me at : CLICK ON THIS LINK [Languages : Français + English]If you have any question concerning seashells, please use the forum of this website. Many collectors may read it and answer you. Read more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbE23tZ6ENs01 january2020: Updates!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 !!!19 may 2019 : UpdatesNew articles in french (pdf) from XENOPHORA n 164 :Vous avez dit frigidus ?https://www.seashell-collector.com/Html/xeno/xeno%20164%20frigidus.pdfEscapade en famille Mauricehttps://www.seashell-collector.com/Html/xeno/xeno%20164%20maurice.pdfNew videos uploaded at WWS :Shelling in Dubai Madinat Jumeirah Beach 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhUoSoLBqPIGiveaway Results ! Win a Book Content ! And the winner is...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlOiFPH2fMwCone shells of the Seychelles Giveaway Book review. Contest : Win a book !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg3a54Pwkmo15march 2019 : onevideohave been published! Paris Shell Show 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fqS_R3BRI14 march 2019 : two new videos have been published! Paris Shell Show 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAx3Ifyqr7khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVNHMHcgElA21 february 2019 :A new video have been published at WWS :La Garde Shell Show 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fKp9L0bQI20 january 2019 :A new video have been published at WWS :Shell Books Reviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS4cSiRxz2g15 january 2019 : You my have a few bugs browsing the website since the end of november. I apologize but we have been attacked by hackers-sapmmers and we had to change version of website but it broke a lot of links and galleries etc... we are working actually to get back our friendly url and we ll work again on galleries. Happy Shelling DAVID13 january 2019 :A new video have been published at WWS :Shell Books Reviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRR9q_V39jc01 january 2019 :!! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!!A new video have been published at WWS :Shell Books Review : New Caledonia Mayotte Shell books !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77C75HwTlxI24 december 2018 : !! MERRY CHRISTMAS !!A new video have been published at WWS :Shell Books Review ! 6 Books about sea shells today !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41JO0oMOt9I15 december 2018 :NEW BOOK : CONE SHELLS OF THE SEYCHELLESI wanted to announce the imminent publication of my book on Seychelles cones. Two versions will be published in January 2019: a French and an English version. This is the result of a year and a half of work.This is a 173-page guide that will delight the beginner but also the specialist. 70 plates representing 278 specimens are presented to you. The book is in A5 format. It is easy to take on vacation. Of course, this book can beused throughout the Indian Ocean because most of the species is found throughout this geographical area! The texts are numerous (one for each species). Part is dedicated to certain identification keys for beginners.If this book interests you, it is offered at a reduced price of 29 for pre-orders (*) of this first draw (excluding shipping costs). For French readers, it will be possible to withdraw it on the Stock Exchange to get it back on the Toulon-La Garde Stock Exchange in February 2019.For any pre-order please send me an email to david.touitou83@gmail.com.(*) the pre-orders will end on 31-01-2019.07 december 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Beachcombing In Mauritius ! What is That ? Shell Identification Help)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvrXMDA5TQ15 october 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling in the South Of France 2018. Fishes empty shells !)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFj-16_bi-025 september 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling in Mauritius : fishes shells of the lagoon (part3)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OUyx7SOrg08 september 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling in Mauritius : fishes sea shells of the lagoon (part2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdtnbqmuy015 august 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling in Mauritius : fishes sea shells of the lagoon (part1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDg41eRdg-k feature=youtu.be30 july 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Dangerous Snails of the Seas : the truth about cones, a venomous sea shell family)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUO8NPekVVY24 july 2018 :This is the redone version of an older footage with a smaller thumbnail. The visibility of the shells is improvedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BQ1p9_bX821 july 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (The Mauritius Seashell Museum : 8000 sea shells, 750 species exposed!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9welUHtos15 july 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Flipper : the Shell seeker Robot ! Mayotte Trip Training)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FudvTX0zaD807 july 2019 :A new video have been uploaded (Harpa shell Vs crab ! Night attack !)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6hE644dYU28 june 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling with the New Caledonian cowries !)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7gnVTx0w025 june 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Live Cowrie Shells in low tide pools (volcanic rocks) : Mauritius 2018 !)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT3_n6S76Vo t=1s11 june 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Cone shell Venom extraction (milking) on live Conus consors)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVaMrfyamY feature=youtu.be05 june 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (How to store seashells (Acrylic boxes cotton)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zu7T3qPKeY28 may 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (How to clean polish an encrusted seashell)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVdbmXpF7wM t=78s26 may 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (How to clean and polish seashells !)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3m4RY-VYWY t=471s21 may 2018 : A new video have been uploaded (Moon Shell burying at night in Mauritius)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJ5MddeE98 t=8s17 may 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (Snorkeling at night in Mauritius)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6lI6WrcoM14 april 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (My Mayotte cone shells collection)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVc2R_ZML1o feature=youtu.be10 april 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (My New Caledonian cone shells collection) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP6PxN8xuUc feature=youtu.be02 april 2018 :A new video have been uploaded (My self-collected Caribbean cone shells collection) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EGQRi64gQ feature=youtu.be01 april 2018 :The iconography of the Martinique Guadeloup coneshells have been updated (Conus jacquescolombi) :http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/page_conidae-from-martinique-guadeloupe.html31 march 2018 : A new video have been uploaded (My self-collected Caribbean seashell collection) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKZPh878eE23 march 2018 :The iconography of the Polynesian coneshells have been updated with 4 images of Conus eldredi.http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/conidae-from-french-polynesia/page_conus-eldredi.html22 march 2018 : Two new videos about storing seashells !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dawdzW1siQUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_vXunucsus18 march 2018 : The iconography of the Polynesian coneshells have been updated with the last described specie : Conus easoni.http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/page_conidae-from-french-polynesia.html18 march 2018 : A new youtube video is now online on How to clean Seashells :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMeTJo9Huc14 march 2018 : A new youtube video is now online on How to Polish Seashells :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf6D8nMCEmo05 march 2018 :A new youtube video is now online on La Garde Shell Show 2018 (France) :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPgDB--85iA t=29s04 march 2018 : A new youtube video is now online on How to identify Seashells :https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=712 v=VQTxkOO-_jM06 february 2018 : I have created our FB page at :https://www.facebook.com/seashell.channel.301 february 2018 :New video about Sanibel :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqp9mWfa...e=youtu.be28 january 2018 : New video about Mediterranean seashells : various seashellshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F3229PkyTs feature=youtu.be28 january 2018 : New video about Mediterranean seashells : presentingErosaria spurcacowriehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEt_8cQ8RBM feature=youtu.be27 january 2018 : New video about Mediterranean seashells : presenting Luria lurida cowriehttps://youtu.be/EbN0BP0912c25 january 2018 : New video about Seychelles there :http://www.seashell-collector.com/page_videos-utube.html23 january 2018 : best wishes for 2018 !! And hope you ll enjoy this new video about Maldives !http://www.seashell-collector.com/page_videos-utube.html20 december 2017 : Advertising in 2018 is again possible at main site and it s related forum :http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/page_advertising-at-seashell-collector-forum.html13 october 2017 : The XENOPHORA s article about my trip to Maldives have been uploaded (pdf format) there :http://www.seashell-collector.com/Html/xeno/xeno160.pdf11 august 2017 : More images have been uploaded into the Maldives article !31 july 2017 : Our last Trip sum up to Maldives is now online :http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_trip-to-maldives.htmlNew images will be uploaded later. Hope you ll enjoy these :)21 may 2017 : Seychelles iconography : CONIDAE = updated with 6 new imges.http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/page_conidae-from-seychelles.html28 march 2017 : A new article have been published about Michel Balleton s 3 new books !http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_conidae-cypraeidae-terebridae-of-french-polynesia-books.html06 January 2017 : !! Happy New Year 2017 !!26December 2016 : Thehttp://www.seashell-collector.com/beginners/page_storing.html(STORING SEASHELLS PAGE) have been updated with a list of trees-wood acidity to avoid the acid action on your shells in wood cabinet.24 December 2016 : The galleries are down and will be restored as soon as possible.19 December 2016 : The website have been partially hacked in december. We had to load a older version fo files. News since february have been lost but files shall not have been touched by this attack. Thanks to Laurent, the website is online again ! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL and HAPPY SHELLING !!24 Feb. 2016 :The Author s Collection have been updated : this concerns the Caribbean collection (100% complete)http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/macollection/page_shells-from-caribbean.html(Seychelles 100% done now)23Feb. 2016 : The Seychelles Cone Iconography have been updated with new images, this concerns : Conus ammiralis, Conus bullatus, Conus auricomus Conus luteus.http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/page_conidae-from-seychelles.html23Feb. 2016 : The Author s Collection have been updated : this concerns the Seychelles collection (updated at 80%), more images to come.http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/macollection/page_shells-from-seychelles.html13January 2016 : The Html version of article with different images is online (french) :http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_voyage-aux-seychelles-octobre-2015.html12January 2016 : Two (pdf) articles about Seychelles have been published from the XENOPHORA journal :http://www.seashell-collector.com/Html/xeno/xeno%20153.pdf01 January 2016 : !!HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 !! AND HAPPY SHELLING !!24 august 2015 : TCC N 27 have been uploaded today and you ll find a seashell-collector author s article :Conus regius From Martinque: A Magnificent and Very Variable Species09 july 2015 : New article have been published in the ARTICLES/XENOPHORA folder :http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/page_xenophora-pdf-files.htmlIt have been published in the last french journal XENOPHORA (july). Hope you ll enjoy ! DAVID15 April 2015 : Update : Links, Shell Related Websites. A lot of websites are down. They have been deleted from the list. Internet is always moving fast and most of websites are not updated very quickly. Very rare are the websites that survive... Seashell-Collector was one of the first website about shelling... and we are still there !!! 18 years of information !!!!!!!!!!! :)14 April 2015 : Iconography Conidae French Polynesia : Updated :Deep Water Species added from Tarasoc Mission13 April 2015 : Iconography Conidae French Polynesia : Updated : Conus concoadded Conus generalisnew image11 April 2015 :A new article is published :2 Days at Sanibel island (Florida) : Extreme Low Tide03 February 2015 :A new pdf have been uploaded :Conus pennaceus from Seychellesarticle published inXENOPHORA N 14903 January 2015 : !!! Happy New Year 2015 !!! Seashell-Collector was at SANIBEL for christmas !! Awesom Low Tide and what a nice island !03 december 2014 : New TCC N 26 have been published27 november 2014 : Forum spamming problems seem to blocked now, registering and reseting password shall work properly.21 october 2014 : !!! IMPORTANT !!! Databases are actually closed in order to upload and test the new version (worldwide collectors, live seashells,...).20 october 2014 : A new pdf have been uploaded : Conus legatus article published in XENOPHORA N 14810 october 2014 : We still have a lot of spammers trying to log in our forum and everyday this blocks our mail account. Tou may not received the confirmation mail. Please contact us.16 september 2014 : Everything works now perfectly with the forum, even registering and password request. DAVID12 september 2014 : One may now register at seashell-collector.com again, except that you need to contact me in order to receive your password.11 September 2014 : IMPOSSIBLE TO REGISTER ON OUR FORUM actually !!Dear users, We have applied the last update to our forum (MyBB regular update) and this causes a problem while users want to register our forum. Usually you cannot and the forum tells you that you IP adress is detecting as a spamming one.If you need to register, please contact me at pharma.collo@gmail.com and I will create your account manually.Happy Shelling, DAVID08 September 2014 : New article have been added from Michel Balleton from Tahiti : http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_conus-auratinus-sur-tahiti.html29 August 2014 :Forum adress is definitivelyforum.seashell-collector.co and is working, if you have trouble reaching it please wait a few days or flush your temp DNS (that keeps the old DNS-adress). DAVID29 August 2014 : Forum adress is changing from www.seashell-collector.com/forum to forum.seashell-collector.com, the forum could be temporarly unreachable though. DAVID28 August 2014 : Forum is online andeverything works28 August 2014 : Forum is online but one cannot login. We have spoted the trouble and are repairing it at the moment. Within the 24 hours the bug shall be fixed. DAVID22 August 2014 : the website forum are now fully operational again. DAVID22 August 2014 : the website forum are actually 50% unreachable as we changed main adress in server and all shall be ok during the day. Most links are not active yet. DAVID05 July 2014 : two pdf articles published in the french XENOPHORA journal have been added :Conus gubernator f. leehmani (N 147) VENOMICS 2013 : Exp dition scientifique en Polyn sie (N 144) :http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/page_xenophora-pdf-files.html27 June 2014 : TCC25 have been published, you may read it there : http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/page_theconecollector.html ;2 articles from seahsell-collecor.com have been published in this newsletter.22 May 2014 : We have published with JANINE JACQUES the new version of Cone Shells from Martinique Guadeloupe23 April 2014 : I have finished the review of my old article from 2002 about Seychelles Cowries. You may check it in the ICONOGRAPHY menu.14 April 2014 : Actually TCC 24A have been released with our 2 corrected articles on Mauritius Mayotte. In the next TCC 25 another 2 articles will be published. One about Seychelles cone shells and our last one about Martinique Guadeloupe cone shells. It will be an exclusive article. Then when TCC25 is released, I will also publish it at seashell-collector.com, in TCC 26 will be published the last one about French Polynesian cone shells. DAVID19 March 2014 : Laurent have corrected the World Wide Collectors display bug and the system is working fine actually.18 March 2014 : We have restored the databases (World Wide Collectors Live Seashells). I have deleted over 200 spammers. Anyway, this database is out of date as you probably noticed. We keep all our efforts on the new one. DAVID17 March 2014 : We have repaired the links to SEASHELL LIVE DATABASE and WORLDWIDE COLLECTORS DATABASE. These are still hosted on our old server. We are actually working on the next generation of users pages which will allow a lot more features that the first one. Though you may still access to the old version. DAVID11 March 2014 : Our New Iconography (Caribbean Cone shells) will be online this month. I am working also on 3 projects : Seychelles Cowries (actually under revision), Mauritius Cowries (not started yet) and New Caledonian Cone shells (not started yet). DAVID08 March 2014 : We have finished the transfert of the website to OVH servers. I am going to update again the website. I had to wait the end of the transfer. We had to add a domain name in order to proceed to the new system, that is why the forum have the adress : http://forum.seashell-auctions.com/ instead of the older one. We may change it later, the forum is working fine though. David Touitou27 janaury 2014 : Dealers list and other links have been splited14 janaury 2014 : The third version of Polynesian CONIDAE have been published in ICONOGRAPHY folder.09 janaury 2014 : The third version of Polynesian CONIDAE is about to be published.01 january 2014 : HAPPYNEWYEAR2014 and Happy Shelling !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!26 december 2013 : I have updated the ICONOGRAPHY of CONIDAE-POLYNESIA with more than 40 images of live shells, thanks to MICHEL BALLETON24 december 2013 : MERRYCHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!! Hope shelling will be in all mind with the upcoming year !!!! Actually we are still working on the CONIDAE from Martinique Guadeloupe (Caribbean) which is very difficult. Hope ti be able to make soon the revision of Polynesian TEREBRIDAE. And welcome to our 2 historical sponsors : CONCHOLOGY SHELLSPASSION.06 december 2013 : I am actually working on the revision of the CONIDAE from Martinique Guadeloupe (Caribbean). The first work was really out of date... 2005 !19 november 2013 : I have finished the revision of the CONIDAE from Seychelles. I updated the iconography with bigger images. I tried to fit with the scale of shells to show properly the big ones and very small ones.11 november 2013 : With the help of Eric Le Court de Billot, we started the Iconography of CONIDAE from Mauritius Island (Indian Ocean)06 november 2013 : With the help of Norbert Verneau and Matthias Deuus, we have published our work on CONIDAE from Mayotte (INDIANOCEAN) http://www.seashell-collector.com/iconography/page_ressource-sans-titre.html24 october 2013 : Michel Balleton I, have finished the revision of the Polynesian Conidae. We started the job in 2004 with a first checklist. We now have all image for all species and added new descriptions of course. It is there http://www.seashell-collector.com/~ziptric/evo/iconography/page_conidae-from-french-polynesia.html17 october 2013 : I am actually working on 3 projets : Updating our 2004 work on French Polynesian Conidae Checklist with the help of Michel Balleton. We are actually working with Norbert Verneau on the iconography of Mayotte (Indian Ocean) Cone shells and I am abour starting a similar project (Conidae checklist) with someone from Mauritius (Indian ocean).13 october 2013 : As several of you asked me the creation date of website... We created this website in 1997 ! As you can notice, rare are the websites (from all kind of hobbies) that still exist from that period. I have seen hundreds of shell related websites that have been created and deleted... that is the main problem with internet. Things never go on for a long period. I just used a programm to check broken links. I had to delete hundreds of links to external pages !!Remember that Seashell-Collector was one of the first shell related website to be launched ! Were less than 10 website in 1997 !! Incredible ! Time have passed and many more have been launched. But will they remain for years ? who knows....11 october 2013 : I have changed the banner, I hope you will appreciate this big banner showing a diver (me) face to a nice Cypraea Luria lurida lurida from France !10 october 2013 : 2 articles have been corrected (image link errors) : Bistolisda Complex 2005 Cribarula complex 2005; Beginners/identification updated and corrected (image link errors); Wallpapers error link corrrected10 october 2013 : added links to several offline articles published in xenophora TCC, waiting 2 pdf files from xenophora that will be uploaded soon concerning : Voyage aux Seychelles VENOMICS 2013 : Exp dition scientifique en Polyn sie10 october 2013 : Sum up of genral articles have been corrected, display bug in the list.09 october 2013 : A new article have been added : It sum up our last VENOMIC Trip to French polynesia last april (2013). Language is french but you may read it in english on the TCC n 23 (miscellaneous/The Cone collector menu)08 october 2013 : The TCC (The Cone Collector newsletter) is ready for download in the miscellaneous/The Cone collector menu07 october 2013 : We are experiencing a big late in the progress of development of the new version of the website, so I am going to update this one with a lot of new articles soon and update it very regulary. Happy Shelling, DAVID23 may 2013 : Dear members, we had to change the forum as the old one was hacked too often. We of course kept all messages and accounts, but it could ask you a new password. Thousands of seashells ! La Garde Shell Show 2018 (France) Rarity : VC (Very Common) C (common) UC (Uncommon) R (Rare) VR (Very Rare) E (Exceptionnal)Depth : IT (Intertidal 0-5m) SW (Shallow water 5-10m) MDW (Moderately Deep water 10-30m) DW (Deep Water 30m-60m)VDW (Very Deep Water 60-100m) DR (Dredged >100m) F(Only found in Fishes stomach)Size : average adult size, in mm (millimeters)Habitat : L(Lagoon) R(Reef) LP(Lagoon Pinnacles) OL(Outer Slope) S(Shore reef)Areas : SANDY-LIVE CORAL-CORAL DEBRIS-ROCKY-WEEDY-MUDDY-HARD REEF Read more...

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