L'Arca di Noè will be CLOSED FOR A FEW WEEKS from Tuesday 25/05/26 due to health problems. The purchase function has been disabled: please do not send us in this period orders by e-mail that we will not be able to process.
However, you can enter what you wish to purchase in your Wish List, and then send it to us when possible.
All pending orders (awaiting payment or paid the day before our closure) will remain pending.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
other gasteropods (gasteropoda)
In the rare case that some of you ask us, our shells (true,not reproductions) are precisely ... just shells, ie without the mollusk that produced them. They come from different seas and oceans, particularly in the Pacific, with the exception of course of the Pulmonate that are on the mainland. So in the catalog you'll find whether Gastropoda (cypraee, murices, cones…), ie the kind of shellfish whose shell is composed of a single part with an opening from which the animal escapes, or Bivalvia (pectines, cockles, clams...) so called because their shell is divided in two parts know as the "valves"; but we have also Scaphopoda, tusk of elephant shaped, and the Cephalopoda with external shell (excluded therefore small cuttlefishes, octopuses and calamaries!), like the famous Nautilus (not the submarine…).
Like for every category, our catalogs are subject to frequent revision, so you often come back to visit us if you are searching for novelties.
And now… good fishing!
In this catalog you will find both commercial and economic shells, either rare specimens or in any case unique pieces, chosen and selected for your collection.
Shells in lots or in weightat this link! Click here for italian Shells of Mediterranean Sea.
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