Date:         Sun, 7 Nov 2010 11:42:32 -0800
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From:         Peter Egerton <pegerton@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Here's one for the Cone guys
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Harry,

Reminds me of a TV show about poisonous sea creatures.
The episode was on cones and in one scene they showed a pack
of live "cones" and they were all Strombus luhuanus.

Peter


At 07:08 AM 07/11/2010, you wrote:
>Marlo,
>
>Don't think for a moment this isn't the first misID of this kind
>ever perpetrated. In the mid 1960's Stan Levine gave a memorable
>talk to the NY Shell Club entitled "Phony Conus." He drew heavily on
>juvenile strombids, the columbellid genus Parametaria, and certain
>taxa then placed in the Turridae.
>
>I don 't recall seeing a stromboid notch in any juvenile strombid
>such as the topical one appears to be.
>
>Harry
>
>
>At 09:41 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>>Wayne Harland wrote:
>>>Marlo,
>>>
>>>look at the eyestalks -- clearly it is a juvenile Strombus --
>>>probably raininus or gallus.
>>>
>>>Wayne
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: <mailto:marlo@CFL.RR.COM>Marlo Krisberg
>>>To: <mailto:CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 6:50 AM
>>>Subject: [CONCH-L] Here's one for the Cone guys
>>>Is this indeed C. regius?
>>>
>>>
>>><http://z14.invisionfree.com/Conchologist_Forum/index.php?showtopic=1977>http://z14.invisionfree.com/Conchologist_Forum/index.php?showtopic=1977
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>marlo
>>This is certainly one for the Strombus guys.  The shell injury has
>>removed his strombid notch,
>>
>>Yours,
>>The genus guy

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