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>Andrew Grebneff wrote:
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>> > The generic unit Triplofusus is based on Pleuroploca gigantea.
>> > Splitters consider Pleuroploca only to refer to Pleuroploca
>> > trapezium and a few other (Indo-Pacic) species. All these are in
>> > the Fasciolariidae.
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>> > I think we'll eventually use Triplofusus for the Florida Horseconch,
>> > but change comes slowly.
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>Am I the only one that finds it mildly amusing that, while the
>taxonomists argue whether it is Pleoroploca or Triplofusus or
>Hotglockomorra, the ol' Florida horse conch is still a Florida horse
>conch?
But it's NOT a conch (conchs are strombids). It doesn't live only in
Florida. And what does it have to do with a horse, apart from
being... er ... large?
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Andrew Grebneff
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