Mishelle

This is the shell that serves as a wonderful model for some of my drawing practice. I shall call it "Mishelle".

Mishelle is a Fox Striped Horse Conch. At one point, it was inhabited by an extremely large predatory tropical and subtropical sea snail.

Mishelle is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fasciolariidae. While known as a horse conch, Mishelle is not a true conch, as it is not in the genus Strombus.

This species is the largest gastropod in the American waters, and one of the largest univalves in the world.

Source: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Pleuroploca_gigantea