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Date: | Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:00:17 -0700 |
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Bill, I would be very interested in seeing a scan of your strange Phallium
granulatum. Please send it to [log in to unmask] , thanks. I have only an
opinion about your shell (a cheap one at that) but it does sound like it was
caught during a growth period -- especially if it has evidence of earlier
lips or thickened varices. I have never seen a junvenile, so can't say if
they parade around without a lip -- but it is certainly possible.
Tom in New Mexico, USA
>Of the many specimens of PHALIUM granulatum
> that I have collected on the central Texas Beaches,
> one stands out. The one I'm referring to must have
> been sick, demented or maybe just retarded.
>Why? Well, it has no thickened outer lip!
> True, It could have been in the middle of a growth
> period when it died but that doesn't explain the
> numerous thickened outer lips that were not removed
> (dissolved) before previous growth periods started.
>It is relatively small, 1 1/2 inches, for its species
> but there is no doubt about it being a Scotch Bonnet.
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