The collection of snails, Uvero, Sagua La Grande -
Snails Collection Uvero in your house may be the most interesting hobby that you can have your age or your annual vacation. Not everything on the beach is to swim in the sea and lie in the hammock as a portal to make the delicate breeze from the north, that, although it seems most, is just a piece of the journey that would eventually get bored.
PREPARING COPY FOR THE CABINET
consevación process of a mollusk is the simplest operation in taxidermy, which is the animal group that requires less technical and instrumental.
The snail is very well preserved, both in form and color, after getting the mollusk inside, not just applying some treatment, but rather a simple transparent coating can retain and further enhance the top layer with its bright colors and drawings.
The mollusk (snail) is extracted in different ways, housewives in water extract it hot, but the alcohol or formaldehyde is faster when you're not eating and just dissect, leaving the interior of the shell completely clean.
Trying out with knives and other instruments may leave chunks of meat inside.
vertical to put in display cases can be applied two small beetles and a wire can be attached to the bottom (the largest), the smaller or lighter shells, can be pasted with glue and thus avoiding a crack in the hole .
Each place is labeled with its common name, scientific name, collection site and date. Example:
cephalopod molluscs Octopus and squid can not dissect what can only be displayed in museums in jars with alcohol or formaldehyde.
PICTURES OF YOUR COLLECTION
Digital photography also plays an important role for the modern collector because it allows remote consultation via the Internet with other collectors and specialists with which taxonomic uncertainties can be clarified when classifying a specimen.
also to maintain our virtual museum available to others through online computer, which not have to travel from Havana or East (or Spain) to Uvero to see the progress and changes in your collection.
WHERE TO FIND THEM? Walk
Just walking across the shoreline of Uvero (always facing the floor) to make some collections Univalves snails and bivalves.
should be taken as baggage: some good tennis first and foremost, a backpack with water and food as walking time, jars big to put live snails with water, and one without water for the dead, it only shell), empty matchboxes to protect smaller clips to get them out of the mud, etc., paper and pencil to write down the site and date, some take his camera to build the file, and a hat for protection from the intense sun of Uvero.
But habitats are different and so the expedition will be different.
Diving
definitely in the "walk underwater" is where you will have better results. It will include the same baggage as above except that adapted to the sea (boat or raft, underwater camera, mask, snorkel, fins, and tanks should deep search.
will notice as they are not the same groups or families of mollusks which live at different depths, rocks, coral, sand, mud, mangroves, salgazo, fans, small islands and bayous.
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Some mollusks that can be found around Uvero, Sagua La Grande (see photo):
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Class: Gastropoda
Strombus gigas (Cobo)
Strombus costatus (COBIT white) Strombus
raninus Strombus gallus
Strobus pugilis (COBIT red)
turbinilla angulata (fotutos)
Cassis tuberosa Cassis
magadascarensis (Quinconte)
Cypraeacassis testiculus (Quincontico)
Charonia variegata
Melongena melongena (Helmet mule) Melampus
coffeus
Fasciolaria tulip
Bulla Cypraea zebra
striata
Cymatium nicobaricum
Oliva reticularis
daucus
Cones Conus regius
Cittarium pica (Cigua) Tegula fasciata
Modulus modulus
Latirus infundibulum
hastula cinerea
Pyramidella dollabrata
Connell ovulate
Nassarius sp. Cymatium
nicobaricum
Tonna maculosa
Nerita Murex formosus Crepidula aculeata
peloronta
Littoraria nebula
Cenchritis muricatus
Chicoreus florifer
Trachypollia nodulosa
Natica canrena
Cyphoma gibbosum (Shoes)
Hemitoma octoradiata
Hemitoma emarginata
Diodora cayenensis
Lucapina aegis
Turritella exoleta
Fissurella fascicularis
Fissurella rosea
Rissoina
decussata Minimum Batillaria caribanensis Truncatella
Epitonium albidum
Vermicularia Spirat
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