Like every year, Roger LE BEON et Jean Marie COLIN with the help of some AFC members, organise a very nice shell show in Toulon (South of France).This shellers' meeting is always a success. Again, we had the pleasure to meet worldwide collectors at lunch ! The menu is always excellent ! :)My dealers and collectors where present these two days. The room is large enough to give enough space to all shell exhibitors ! Again I had the chanceto watch many nice shells (I look mainly for CONIDAE...). I loved the Conus floc
Les coquilles du bocal viennent du sable noir de la Pointe Vénus à Mahina, de 5h à 9h du matin , en plus de celles que l'on voit , un gros Conus coffeae et Conus textile, une Cypraea irrorata, C. bitrinotata, C. teres janae, Terebra guttata et T. matheroniana et autres petites bricoles. Le Conus retifer a été pêché par un copain dans le lagon de Paea et c'est un gros pépére.Le motu du début du lagon de Tautira est toujours aussi beau .Ma dernière pêche de Mahina , in situ dans mon atelier , reproduction du biotope et tutti quanti...
15 april 2012Â :Â New article published :Â http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general-articles/la-garde-%28toulon%29-shell-show-2012.html
14 april 2012 : Hello conchers ! I am back from a trip to Mayotte. I will post a new article very soon (May). It was very interesting, as I went there with the Venomic project...
14 february 2012 : New article published : New TCC is online (N°19) : you can have a look at this last issue here : The Cone Collector Newsletter N°19
07 november 2011 : New article published : you can have a look there : http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general-articles/seashells-et-art.html
29 september 2011 : New TCC is online (N°18) : you can have a look at this last issue here : The Cone Collector Newsletter N°18
09 august 2011 : New article published :Â it show images of live shells taken fromTahiti... http://www.seashell-collector.com/article/general-articles/shelling-report-from-tahiti-!.html
04 june 2011 : New article published :Â it show images of live cone shells taken from my last trip to th Seychelles... http://www.seashell-collector.com/article/general-articles/back-from-19-days-in-the-seychelles.html
04 may 2011 : New article published in the beginners folder. Shelling equipment to go snorkeling ... http://www.seashell-collector.com/beginner/shelling-stuff-to-go-snorkeling.html
15 may 2011 : New article published in the beginners folder. How to bring back shells from your trip without damage... http://www.seashell-collector.com/beginner/how-to-bring-back-shells-from-trips.html
13 may 2011 : New article published from Tahiti. Thanks to Patrick Marti ! http://www.seashell-collector.com/article/general-articles/collecting-in-tahiti.html
09 may 2011 : I am back from my 20 days Seychelles' trip !! I am finishing a long article that will be published in french in XENOPHORA magazine (AFC publication), it will be translated in english and published in future issue of TCC. I will also post a short article on the website of course. I am preparing an article from Tahiti as our local reporter Patrick Marti sent me a lot of shell images from he's recent finds... Laurent is still working hard on the users part and on galleries. Stay tuned !
10 april 2011 :Â We finally have moved the website from it's original server. The website shall be mush faster now. The new sever allows lot's more updates. We now have finished to work on the template and after the correction of a few bugs we'll work 100% on new users manager. The next step is to provide to members hundreds of possibilities includingthe abilities to show and manage their collection, trade, sell, auction shells, write articles, rate shells,... A lot of work for us !!!!!
26 january 2011 :  New Html Article have been published about Patrick Marti's trip toMadagascar. french only :) http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general-articles/2010-trip-to-madagascar.html
10 december 2010 :  New Html Article have been published about Patrick Marti's 3 weeks trip to phuket (Thailand). Sorry it's in french ! :) http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general-articles/phuket-thailand-trip.html
 09 december 2010 :  New pdf Article have been published from last issue of the french journal XENOPHORA (french) : http://www.seashell-collector.com/Html/xeno/xeno132.pdf
 02 december 2010 :  We have to update the version of our website builder (MODx) from evolution to the last one "revolution". We are actually near the end of the work, thanks to the great work of Laurent Cayre. As soon as the version have been updated, we will go back to the huge task that we were handling before : creating a brand new "user" manager that will allow you to make so many more stuff, such as your shop, auctions,trades,galleries,collections...Â
01 october 2010 :Â Â FORUM :Â The forum now have 2 other mother languages. We added a french & Italian Forum. I will moderate the french forum and Giancarlo Paganelli will have in charge the italian forum.
01 october 2010 :Â Actually we are working on the following points :
- Having last posts and forum online users appear on home page.
- Setting up spanish sub-forum
- Having better image galleries
- On the first page, to be able to see the five most recent articles and browse them
- Setting up the users page in order to have one account for all applications (collectors,forum,...)
- The ability to show your own collection with galleries (related to the next version of accounts)
- The ability to set up your own shop or trade room
09 september 2010 :Â Â IMPORTANT MESSAGE :Â The forum have finally moved to seashell-collector's servers !!
All accounts and messages have been transfered. Please read on the new forum how to login with old username. That is the result of 3 monthes of work, thanks to Laurent Cayre.
09 august 2010 :  New article published : Small snails from Mediterranean sea Part 1 (08th july 2010) http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_small-snails-from-mediterranean-sea-part-1.html
29 July 2010 :  New article published : Conus hornii in Venezuela, by Alessandro Zanzi  http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_conus-hornii-in-venezuela.html
29 July 2010 :  TCC SPECIAL EDITION OUT :  Danker L. N. Vink's The Conidae of the Western Atlantic http://www.seashell-collector.com/miscellaneous/page_theconecollector.html
15 July 2010 :  New interview : António Monteiro, author of the famous TCC ! http://www.seashell-collector.com/articles/general_articles/page_interview-of-antonio-monteiro.html
05 July 2010 :  Seychelles Coneshells have been imported from old website http://www.seashell-collector.com/index.php?id=1019
First of all, latin names really "simplify" taxonomy, this might shock some of you ! But a shell (a vegetal, an animal or a mushroom) is always called by local populations by various names. This means that a particular specie may have several local names (vernacular names). We woul have then to learn all the different names, in many different languages, to understand each other... We still use binominal nomenclature since Linné and it is "universal" (worldwide should be more true...). The
Terebra affinis Gray, 1834 One of the most common species in our lagoons. It has a white pattern with clear to chocolate brown spots, except on the subsutural band where we can only see the brown axials grooves. Terebra affinis f. peasei Deshayes, 1859
Can be distinguished from the first one by a pattern having numerous axials grooves, showing a much more corrugated pattern.
Terebra affinis f. puncticulata Deshayes, 1859













