The phrase "a shelf called" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific shelf that has been given a name or title, often in a descriptive or narrative context.
Example: "In the corner of the room, there was a shelf called 'Memories' filled with photographs and souvenirs."
Alternatives: "a shelf named" or "a shelf referred to as".
A second print ad, depicting a boy standing on a statue of a cow to reach a book on a shelf, calls it "support for growing brains".
I read Franz Boaz' Indian stories because, I swear, they whispered to me from a shelf calling me over with something like 'Pssst.
They have a thicker browridge which sometimes forms a bony shelf called a supra-orbital torus, and the frontal bone, above the browridge, recedes toward the back.
We had the World Book Encyclopedia, donated Reader's Digest Condensed Books, inspirational books by Billy Graham, Bibles in foreign languages and my favorite, a book on a high shelf called "Psychopathia Sexualis".
When I was a child, my parents had a book on their shelf called "Splendor in the Ordinary" by Thomas Howard.
In some cases, as in the islands of The Bahamas, the carbonate shelf, called a bank, is cut off from a continental source by deep water.
There is also a multichassis option available, enabled by a dedicated switch fabric shelf called the CRS-Multi-Chassis (MC), to extend the total throughput capacity to 92 Tbps.
Many hinged genera have a flat or curved shelf, called the palintrope, between the beak and the hinge line.
The world Mr. Phillips inhabits is one in which his son has a book on his shelf called "Hitler Wins: Management Skills of Germany's Greatest Leader".
When he was seventeen, after he'd been dumped by a girlfriend, he came across a forty-year-old book on his parents' shelf called "The Magic of Thinking Big," by David Schwartz, Ph.D. It was here that he encountered such ideas as Mr. Success and Mr. Skid Row and excusitis.
