Micromollusk
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A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small dimensions.
Numerous shells of the freshwater snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum compared to an American dime, which is 18 mm in diameter
Two shells of the freshwater snail Gyraulus crista, about 2 or 3 mm in width
Six shells of the land snail Columella edentula, the scale bar is in mm
Shells of some micromollusks: from left, Truncatella bahamensis (holotype), Truncatella bilabiata bilabiata, Truncatella pulchella.
Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
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The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum is a museum devoted to every aspect of seashells, conchology, and malacology, including the paleontological and archeological/anthropological aspects of the study of shells. The museum is located in the city of Sanibel, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico coast of Southwest Florida.
2014 view of the museum with shell banners
A 2011 view of the museum, the Raymond Burr Memorial Garden in the foreground
An exhibit showing how the Calusa Native American people used the shells of the locally-occurring large whelks to create tools.
Part of one exhibit shows a growth series of the very attractive shell Scaphella junonia, a relatively rare find on the island of Sanibel.