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An impressive collection of seashells and marine bivalves from all over the world is exhibited in this room. All the colors and forms you can imagine are exhibited so that the public can see what nature is able to create.

Seashell Collection: Volute, Murex, Cypraea, Pecten, Terebra, Marginella, or families Conidae, Olividae, Buccinidae, etc..

  • Seashells from deep and coastal waters.
  • Tropical and temperate water seashells.
  • Seashells from Uruguayan waters.

The giant Adelomelon beckii, the brilliant Zidona dufresnei or the shell that produces eggs the size of a tennis ball, the Adelomelon brasiliana.

Strange species such as riosi, pescalia, subnodosa, palliata, ferussaci, natans, felipponei, barattini, simulatrix, etc.

See the biggest mussel in the world.

Can you really hear the sound of the sea in a seashell?

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