I think I almost have it! At this point I've looked at dozens of photos and I will probably go through my collection as well. I need to see several before I feel comfortable identifying the difference. Thanks for putting this together. I didn't realize a baby's ear was a moon snail!
I went through my collection of shark eyes, and found that around 1 in around 3 shark eyes was a false shark eye. I guess they may be a little less common in SWFL and definitely much less common on the east coast. I am planning a shelling trip to a bucket list location soon, hopefully all goes well and I'll be able to do a bunch of videos from there. Thank you so much for watching! Happy shelling :)
@@shellstories Ooooo - can’t wait to see your bucket list videos!! I’ll have to let you know what I find in my collection. I suspect I’ll find the same amount of false/real shark eyes as you did. Good luck on your bucket list shelling trip! Happy holidays! 🎄
@@SWFBeachLife I'll be happy to hear what it's like with yours. I ran into one of mine that had a taller sculpture like a false shark eye, but lacked the grooved umbilicus. Very weird. I suspect it could be natural variation, though I do wonder if they could interbreed since they are very closely related after all. We'll see what will happen, since in these pandemic times I can never be sure of anything, but I hope I'll be able to make some cool videos soon!
@@shellstories This is SO interesting - I have collected quite a few Shark Eyes(Neverita duplicata) on Long Island, NY. I have recently gone through my collection from this area, and see that Sharkeye's collected here maintain the normal umbilicus(non groove, and so are clearly duplicata), but every single one is more conical and has a higher spire than my Neverita duplicata collected in Florida. I wonder if there are "northern" and "southern" variations of Neverita Duplicata within the species?
Very cool! I watched this video after you linked to it in another comment and I can see the difference between a regular and false shark eyes, but definitely understand why you said it's easiest to actually show the shells rather than try and describe the difference. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for watching! In Florida, I've noticed that the regular Shark eyes have a much flatter spire than False Shark eyes, however I've observed in the Outer banks that there are many regular shark eyes with a high spire, which is pretty interesting. Thanks so much for all the support!
This was awesome! Thank you.. I knew the baby's ear was a moon but not that the animal doesn't fit although moons are very big in comparison to their shells!
Hello! Thank you for this information. Makes shelling so much fun to be able to see these differences. Could you share: how big do the two types of shark eyes get? Thank you
I absolutely love this - how informative! I have encountered the False Shark Eyes before and always thought they looked a little different(the spire is definitely more pronounced!). Do you happen to know if the geographical distribution of the False Shark Eye, is the the same as that of the Regular Shark Eye?
Thank you so much! I'm pretty sure false shark eyes are common in the gulf of Mexico and are have a few populations on the east coast of Florida, but I am unaware of them being found north of Florida much. Whereas, regular shark eyes are common in the gulf as well as much of the US east coast. Thanks for watching!
Moon snails are a family of several species (shark eyes, colorful moonsnails etc) so there really isn't a shell that's just a moon snail. Thanks for watching! :)
I think I almost have it! At this point I've looked at dozens of photos and I will probably go through my collection as well. I need to see several before I feel comfortable identifying the difference. Thanks for putting this together. I didn't realize a baby's ear was a moon snail!
I went through my collection of shark eyes, and found that around 1 in around 3 shark eyes was a false shark eye. I guess they may be a little less common in SWFL and definitely much less common on the east coast. I am planning a shelling trip to a bucket list location soon, hopefully all goes well and I'll be able to do a bunch of videos from there. Thank you so much for watching! Happy shelling :)
@@shellstories Ooooo - can’t wait to see your bucket list videos!! I’ll have to let you know what I find in my collection. I suspect I’ll find the same amount of false/real shark eyes as you did. Good luck on your bucket list shelling trip! Happy holidays! 🎄
I didn't know there were false shark eyes!😊
@@SWFBeachLife I'll be happy to hear what it's like with yours. I ran into one of mine that had a taller sculpture like a false shark eye, but lacked the grooved umbilicus. Very weird. I suspect it could be natural variation, though I do wonder if they could interbreed since they are very closely related after all. We'll see what will happen, since in these pandemic times I can never be sure of anything, but I hope I'll be able to make some cool videos soon!
@@shellstories This is SO interesting - I have collected quite a few Shark Eyes(Neverita duplicata) on Long Island, NY. I have recently gone through my collection from this area, and see that Sharkeye's collected here maintain the normal umbilicus(non groove, and so are clearly duplicata), but every single one is more conical and has a higher spire than my Neverita duplicata collected in Florida. I wonder if there are "northern" and "southern" variations of Neverita Duplicata within the species?
Love these shells! Thanks for taking the time to explain. 👍🐚❤
Thanks for watching!
Interesting. Thank you!
Thanks for the instruction. I love to learn something new.
Anytime!
Very educational on the shark eyes, now I have to go through mine to see what I actually have. Thanks so much
Thank you for watching :)
Very informative, I love moon snails and didn’t know about the two shark eyes. Thank you an excellent presentation on the differences.
Thank you! I figured this was a topic not many people knew about, so I was glad to share something new.
Wow! I gotta go look at my shark eyes and see which ones they are. 😂 Great tutorial! Thank you 🤗🐚🐚🐚🐚
Thank you for watching! It is fun to look through your collection to see which ones you have!
After watching I thought the same thing! I have to go thru them and find out what I have🐚
Love the detaiks. I've been wanting to document these differences, thanks for the help. 🐚🐚🐚
You're welcome!
Very cool! I watched this video after you linked to it in another comment and I can see the difference between a regular and false shark eyes, but definitely understand why you said it's easiest to actually show the shells rather than try and describe the difference. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for watching! In Florida, I've noticed that the regular Shark eyes have a much flatter spire than False Shark eyes, however I've observed in the Outer banks that there are many regular shark eyes with a high spire, which is pretty interesting. Thanks so much for all the support!
Thank you! Learned something new about the shark eyes!
Thanks for watching :)
Well done video. I found a moon snail today without any stripes. Apparently it’s a gaudy natica. Thank for the video.
Awesome, and thank you! Nice find, those patternless moon snails are super neat.
Colorful moon snails 👀 ❤👍🌴.
They're awesome!
This was awesome! Thank you.. I knew the baby's ear was a moon but not that the animal doesn't fit although moons are very big in comparison to their shells!
Isn't it crazy? Thanks so much for you support:)
Это просто чудо 🤭👍👍👍👍
Hello! Thank you for this information. Makes shelling so much fun to be able to see these differences. Could you share: how big do the two types of shark eyes get? Thank you
I absolutely love this - how informative! I have encountered the False Shark Eyes before and always thought they looked a little different(the spire is definitely more pronounced!).
Do you happen to know if the geographical distribution of the False Shark Eye, is the the same as that of the Regular Shark Eye?
Thank you so much! I'm pretty sure false shark eyes are common in the gulf of Mexico and are have a few populations on the east coast of Florida, but I am unaware of them being found north of Florida much. Whereas, regular shark eyes are common in the gulf as well as much of the US east coast. Thanks for watching!
Very cool and informative! So where do "moon snails" fit in?
Moon snails are a family of several species (shark eyes, colorful moonsnails etc) so there really isn't a shell that's just a moon snail. Thanks for watching! :)
I have a perfect junonia
I have a perfect junonia
Awesome! People really love those shells. Where did you find yours?
@@kimberlyaustin6677 I found it in Dickmans island 🏝🙌🏼
@@BEAYUVA oh wow! I really want to go there and to Kice Island too!