page_title: Scaphella junonia
section_title: Human relevance
hierarchical_section_title: Scaphella junonia / Human relevance
caption_attribution_description: English: Part of one museum exhibit shows a growth series of the very attractive shell Scaphella junonia, which is found (but only quite rarely) on the island of Sanibel.
context_page_description: Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
  This species lives in water from 29 m to 126 m depth in the tropical Western Atlantic. Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes.
  The species is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno.
context_section_description: The shell was historically greatly prized for its beauty and apparent rarity. It is however commonly taken (accidentally as bycatch) from deeper water during commercial trawling by shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. This source provides plenty of specimens for the shell trade, and so the price of a specimen shell is relatively low. However, the shell is still very hard to find naturally cast up on beaches, so people who find a junonia while shelling on Sanibel Island, Florida, often get their picture in the local newspapers.
caption: An exhibit at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida shows a growth series of this species.
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