Date:         Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:17:09 -0600
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From:         Don Barclay <barclay@CONSOLIDATED.NET>
Subject:      Kiribati Astralium
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Hi Again, Distinguished L'ers,

One more query from Christmas Island, Kiribati has been 
posted on Poppe's ID forum.  It's an odd Astralium species,
with a gunmetal gray (or pewter-silvery gray) color to the
aperture, and a crinkled operculum that darkens from that 
color to a graphite silvery black in the middle.  I've collected
shells that were very similar in Samoa... except they were
trochids, and not turbinids.  

http://www.conchology.ph/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81

Cheers, and thanks for looking,



Don
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