Tambuli shell used as bull horn by sea dwellers
Giant shell (Strombus goliath)
Kapis shell from which the name Capiz was derived. Once used extensively for kapis window during the colonial era
Giant Sea Urchin. The spines are made into wind chime
Skeletons of barnacles 
Collection of shells, Museum of Natural History, UPLB Laguna
Staghorn coral
Skull of right whale, Museum of Natural History UPLB
Tambuli is the local name for the Indo-Pacific trumpet shell. the other picture shown is that of the ventral part of the Cassis cornuta which endemic to the Philippines and the Indo-Pacific region and not the strombus goliath which is endemic to the Atlantic region.
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