Claudio Tempesta Jr. Collection
Claudio (or Claudinho = little Claudio) started participating of our meetings since he was 12 years old, back in 1992. Since then he acquired lots of shells exchanging with several people from all over the world.
He is very picky - to be in his cabinet every shell must be in top quality! His preferred family is Cypraeidae, 120 species plus several variations and forms, he also likes Ranellidae and Conidae in a total of approx.1,500 different species in the entire collection. He used to collect everything, now he only collects Marine Gastropods - no bivalves, land or fresh water shells. As you can see in the photos, he is very neat when it comes to arrange shells into a drawer!

photos by Claudio Tempesta Jr.