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Conch Shell Up Close

Picture by: Unknown Picture taken on: April 4th, 2011

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The queen conch is a large, marine, gastropod mollusk. Mollusks, which comes from the Latin word molluscus, meaning "soft," have more than 100,000 known species.

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