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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancientnoob, post: 2169807, member: 44140&quot;]I know you love completeness and correctness. Your opinion was what I had always thought as well, so with that I share this...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Shankha</b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" rel="nofollow">Sanskrit</a>: शंख<i>Śaṇkha,</i> pronounced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Sanskrit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Sanskrit" rel="nofollow">[ˈɕəŋkʰə]</a>) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch" rel="nofollow">conch</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" rel="nofollow">shell</a> which is of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual" rel="nofollow">ritual</a> and religious importance in both<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" rel="nofollow">Hinduism</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" rel="nofollow">Buddhism</a>. The shankha is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" rel="nofollow">shell</a> of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" rel="nofollow">species</a> of large predatory <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_snail" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_snail" rel="nofollow">sea snail</a>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinella_pyrum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinella_pyrum" rel="nofollow">Turbinella pyrum</a></i>, which lives in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean" rel="nofollow">Indian Ocean</a>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sea snails are marine gastropods with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastropod_shell" rel="nofollow">shells</a>. Those marine gastropods with no shells, or only internal shells, are variously known by other common names, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_slug" rel="nofollow">sea slug</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_hare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_hare" rel="nofollow">sea hare</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch" rel="nofollow">nudibranch</a>, etc. The diversity within sea snails is enormous. Many very different <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade" rel="nofollow">clades</a> of gastropods are either dominated by, or consist exclusively of, sea snails. Because of this great variability, generalization about the feeding, reproduction, habitat, or other traits of sea snails is not possible. Instead, individual clades, families, genera, or species must be assessed.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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