On a vacation in Corpus Christie,she found the nerve to venture out about up to her ankles.
She stepped on a sea shell that was huge.She picked it up and rinsed it out. Before we left the beach,she was offered a large sum of money for it,which she declined.When I explained to her what had lived in it and what might happen if she had been stung,she was horrified.
Conus shells rarely get up to about 9 cm in length or about 3.5 inches. Is that what you mean by huge? I think they're the only venomous molluscs in the Gulf of Mexico (except for the octopus). Did it look anything like this?
Conus spurius
Or like this?
Conus ermineus
I don't want to swim anywhere I can be bitten, stung, shocked, swallowed, or urethrally-invaded.
Sorry for not replying sooner.It looks a little similar to the shell picture in the bottom,but with different coloration.
It measures 9 and 3/4 inches long and about the same when measured from the’foot’as I call it to the top of the ‘wing ‘as I call it!
The wife collects them and there is another one beside it that is six inches long that has multiple ‘horns’around it.
Both are very pretty especially the large one that has a mother of pearl look to it.
As you may have well known by now I am no Marine Biologist!
The colors do not look like the ones you posted.She has one that I have never seen and it is strange looking.
The small 6 incher is a dark tan/light brown,and the other is dark tan.
If I knew how,I would send a picture.Hope it helps and if you have an inkling as to what lived in it,i would be curious to know.
We used to hide messages to each other in the big one!Later,xarmydog.
