it is wrapped around a small stick, could be a seaweed stalk I suppose, found on beach sand, beach has many many rocks of all colours
Port Hedland WA - Cemetery Beach
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Caenogastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
Family Turbinellidae
Subfamily Turbinellinae
Syrinx aruana
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Port Hedland WA - Cemetery Beach
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Caenogastropoda
Order Neogastropoda
Family Muricidae
Pterochelus sp
Port Hedland WA - Cemetery Beach
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Heterobranchia
Superfamily Acteonoidea
Family Acteonidae
Pupa sp
Identifying the shell