Conchology - The Study of Sea Shells
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Conus tessulatus, common name the tessellated cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous.
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Qué bien pinta la ciudad
cuando el agua bien corre
y va alegrando las flores
que reciben su bondad.
Dos bonitos elementos
para adornar la ciudad.
La fe es una bandera
que sólo se debe arriar
si uno va convencido
del camino a llevar.
Yo no quisiera que pongas
acento de religión,
sólo deseo que encuentres
un motivo para ver
sueños y todo aquello
en lo que debes creer,
para entrar siempre a puerto
seguro de que tu barca
sabe encontrar su estela
cuando vuelve de la mar.
La mar siempre te enseña
lo que la fe te señala
para que alcances tu puerto
sin perderte entre las olas,
vientos y tempestades
que no te dejan llegar.
Sheila Ryan - Evening bells.
Conifer
Just found out that my camera has a macro function, lol! And it's damn good at it!
I can't compete with the masterpieces of landscape most of the time, I don't have a DSLR worth of so many dollars, and don't live near the big american nature parks, but I sure can make a diffence in macro photography If nothing else , because I believe there is more in macro then flower phtotography.
Conifer is a Latin word, a compound of conus (cone) and ferre (to bear), meaning "the one that bears (a) cone(s)".
The conifer is also known as division Coniferophyta or Coniferae.
The great majority are trees, though a few are shrubs. Examples include cedars, Douglas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauri, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, and spruces.
Although the total number of species is relatively small, conifers have immense ecological importance. They are the dominant plants over huge areas of land, most notably the boreal forests of the northern hemisphere, but also in similar cool climates in mountains further south. Boreal conifers have many wintertime adaptations. The narrow conical shape of northern conifers, and their downward-drooping limbs, help them shed snow. Many of them seasonally alter their biochemistry to make them more resistant to freezing. While tropical rainforests have more biodiversity and turnover, the immense conifer forests of the world represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink.
They are also of great economic value for timber and paper production;[1] the wood of conifers is known as softwood.
O yeah, the conifer is also in our garden.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinophyta
The first station there was built in 1872 when the railroad was opened to Gebze. However, as the line was extended, traffic increased and a new and larger building was needed. Its construction started in 1906 by Otto Ritter and Helmut Conu, two German architects who chose a neo-renaissance German style. They designed a large building, much in accordance with the ambitions of the German investors who were building the Istanbul-Baghdad Railway and undertaking the consultancy works for the Istanbul-Damascus-Medina Railway. HaydarpaÅŸa was an important link in the railway chain of the Berlin-to-Baghdad railway scheme, part of the German Empire's strategic plans to gain control over the trade routes between the East and the West in the late 19th century by building a railway connection between Germany and the Persian Gulf, thus by-passing the Suez Canal. The station was put into service on August 19, 1908 and formally inaugurated on November 4,
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• Austral Cone
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Genus: Conus
Species:C. australis
100.2mm
East China Sea
From my collection
Araucaria con cono femminil....
Araucà ria amb un con femella....
Araucaria met een vrouwelijke kegelvruchten....
Araucária com cone feminino....
Araucaria med en honkotte....
Araucaria con conos femenino....
Araucaria cu nu conu fimmina....
Unu Araucaria cun una conu femina....
Araukarie mit weiblichem Samenzapfen....
Macro Mondays 'abstract' theme.
Detail of a 'Cloth of Gold' (conus textile) shell.
When down in the deep blue seas of warm tropical waters these are one of the most dangerous sea shells to handle.
The image measures about 1.5" in width
Macro Mondays 'natural shells' theme.
Definitely Dreaming 'empty' theme, 13/52
A 'Cloth of Gold' shell (conus textile). When down in the deep blue seas of warm tropical waters these are one of the most dangerous sea shells to handle.
This shell measures 1.5" at the widest point
Shot 18/100x (the second shot for my changed 'x', now indoor shots)
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Lembata Isl., Flores Isl., Indonesia
43.20 mm
Scientific classification
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Subphylum: Conchifera
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Genus: Eugeniconus
Species: E. nobilis
Subspecies: E. N. victor
'Victor cone snail'
Together with my Newform Reasearch ribbon speaker it provides a beautiful musical reproduction from classic to rock.
Il s'agit d'une espèce extrêmement venimeuse.
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This is an extremely venomous species.
A Mauve-eyed Hermit Crab (Dardanus crassimanus) has found the shell of an Admiral Cone (Conus ammiralis) for its new home.
South Solitary Island, NSW
WIKIPEDIA
Conus textile, common name the textile cone or the cloth of gold cone is a venomous species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones.
Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all. The conotoxin of this species is extremely dangerous to humans.
The man in the shop called it a fraise (strawberry). Height of shell: two and a half inches.
"Rangées de nodules longitudinales sur les premiers tours, fortes lignes de croissance transversales sur les derniers. Blanc, taché de flammules rouges s'allongeant sur la base." Description dans mon guide nature.
Joshua Trees baking in the sun among the shrubs of sage bush and creosote. Shot in Mojave National Preserve near the Mojave Cross.
According to the National Park Service, it's the largest most densely concentration of Joshua trees in the world. This Cima area is one section of this 4th largest Park in the CONUS.
It was a welcomed sunset after a long hot day. Once the sun set, the air became cooler with the light breeze. It was going to be a great night for photography under the stars. No clouds, and mild wind.
7 shot panorama at 35mm (DX), f/16, ISO 100, various shutter speeds.
L'espèce Conus tulipa est un mollusque appartenant à la famille des Conidae.
Il s'agit d'une espèces extrêmement venimeuse.
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The species Conus tulipa is a mollusk belonging to the family Conidae.
It is an extremely poisonous species.
The full view of my recently acquired Cloth of Gold shell. I love the pattern on this one, nicer than my other shell of the same species.
When down in the deep blue seas of warm tropical waters these are one of the most dangerous sea shells to handle.
Some species of cone snail have one of the most powerful poisons in nature. Their mouths have a blow-gun-like structure that shoots a barbed dart-like "tooth" at about 400 miles per hour and their sting can cause muscle paralysis, vision impairment, repiratory failure and can be fatal.
Shot 53/100x
NOVA 02 Departing to Bangor, Marine following an overnight stop. One of two Sentry's from the 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron transiting through enroute back to CONUS. The Tinker, Oklahoma based unit have completed their deployment to Souda Bay where they were monitoring activity in the eastern Mediterranean.
United States Air Force
Boeing E-3G Sentry
78-0578
Prestwick Airport, Scotland
November 2024
Difficult to find much information on the internet about the 1964 Plymouth Satellite. If any of you Mopar fans would care to input any info about this year, make and model car, please do so.
In 1964 I was absent for the early days of the muscle car era. In 1964 I was in the Army stationed on Okinawa.........and later in Vietnam. When on active duty in the Army one sort of losses tract of what's going on back in CONUS. The confusing thing for me when searching or 1964 Plymouths is that I find some pictures of '64 Plymouth Satellites with two headlights and other pictures of '64 Plymouth Satellites having four headlights..........??? I know, or I [ think ] I know that the 64' Plymouth Belvedere's had four headlights but I finding Satellite models with both two and hour headlights! I'm confused.............
Here's the power plant in this car: flic.kr/p/2pVuXZY
Eugeniconus cordigera (G.B. Sowerby, 1866)
Famille : CONIDAE
Philippines, 38 mm
Cone snails are carnivorous. They use a radula tooth as a harpoon-like structure for predation that contains a complex poison.
Eugeniconus species are molluscivorous (the prey on other mollusks)
Habitat and Habits: Intertidal to 20 m; on sand or mud.
Macromonday Poisonous
I bought this Cloth of Gold (Conus Textile) shell about 10 days ago. It's the second one I've bought for my small shell collection and it has a nicer pattern than my other one.
When down in the deep blue seas of warm tropical waters these are one of the most dangerous sea shells to handle.
Definitely Dreaming 'fill the frame' theme. (28/52)
'Prince cone snail'
Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
43.45mm
Scientific classification
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Subphylum: Conchifera
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Genus: Conus
Species: Conus princeps
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, at 282 ft (86 m) below sea level.[9]
The peak rises dramatically above the Owens Valley, sitting 10,778 feet (3,285 m) or just over 2 mi (3.2 km) above the town of Lone Pine 15 mi (24 km) to the east, in the Owens Valley.
'Ambassador Cone'
Samar, Philippines
Scientific classification
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Metazoa
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Subphylum: Conchifera
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Conidae
Subfamily: Coninae
Genus: Cylinder
Species:C. legatus