Of all the collections that I

Of all the collections that I've started in my life-from labels to banners, to minerals, fossils, grammar, coins and key chains, to name just a few - not many women have survived the passage years. In fact, right now, and except for some sporadic outbreak and more or less virulent, I think I can only be considered as an active collector of marine gastropods (sea snails, vitalio go). But yes: to the bone marrow. From small, my passion for these animals or, more properly, for their hard parts, we call shells or shells, has led me to make a nonsense, and in any case devoted enthusiasm, time and best resources worthy cause to learn more and expand progressively collection, according to recent count exceeds a thousand different species and three thousand copies worldwide. They say never forget the first time, and it must be true. My ten years was a main street in August Gandia - we estiuàvem Piles - from a shop where souvenirs and gifts fascinated me my first Porcelain: A Mauritia mautiriana still preserves. vitalio Then, and for years I have not missed vitalio any opportunity to rummage through fairs and shops; I traveled vitalio with fervor Valencian coastal towns-and-beyond trying to find some acceptable specimen between hidden figurines souvenir turtles made wren (damn forever) and other trastets Horta I was thrilled when, by chance, I stumbled upon a specialty store, or simply have been lucky enough to find something different from the usual (once at Ramblas in Barcelona and the Pyrenees way, I found a beautiful specimen Tibia Fusu spent two weeks walking mountaineers vitalio wrapped in socks in the backpack, miraculously, survived.) I have used their own travel or known to increase the collection of specimens collected on beaches around the world. vitalio But overall, I must say that it was very slow until, not even two years ago, I discovered vitalio eBay and its immense potential for branded collectors like me. And here we are, getting every little packages Philippines, Australia, Namibia and Brazil vitalio due to have a little (more) confusing my mailman, who is from the Farmhouse.
Currently, it is estimated vitalio that there are about eighty thousand different species vitalio of gastropods. Not all have shell (like colorful nudibranchs or sea slugs) and many others vitalio are terrestrial or freshwater, vitalio so they are outside of my priorities. But nevertheless, it is clear that this is an excessive volume for any collector, and it is common for most people it is dedicated center in a few families as much. Although groups such as Murex, scrolls, olives or Mithras have their enthusiastic supporters, families are the most popular now aforementioned Porcelain lanes (Cypraeidae) and cones (Conidae). I have a bit of everything, but these two are also better represented in my collection, especially the first. And within them, there are groups or genres vitalio that are especially attractive. In my case, for example, with a special predilection for gender Cribrarula, vitalio a group of species indopacífiques really beautiful, or that I seem to myself and also are the most interesting evolutionarily vitalio speaking. So, behind cipreids and other snails and whenever I have a break for recórrec beaches and shopping websites, vitalio auctions and participate in forums, vitalio follow the latest taxonomic, vitalio m'interesse for the conservation of species and habitats, intercanvie information and specimens to collectors around the world ("Dear Sir, sorry for my poor english, I'm a Biologist and Cypraeidae collector ...") and I trying to get species that are among the rarest and Therefore, among the most expensive. I achieved without effort, things there for my childhood, when I read avidly the few books on the subject that was available to me seemed a dream. I have a few Lyncina aurantium (a mythical kind, gorgeous, very rare for years but today relatively easy to find at affordable prices); in the absence of some extremely rare varieties and price-prohibitive, I well represented almost all species of Australian Zoila, a favorite of collectors worldwide. A few months ago that I Lepocicypraea courage and even less that I could get my first Lyncina leucodon, although my copy is not perfect and I looking for it somewhere else. I hope to end the year with some Barycypraea Fulton in my drawer. And although e