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mike gray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:32:04 -0500
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Peggy Williams wrote:

>
> In the Bahamas a Horse Conch is Turbinella angulata (also called Pepper
> Conch).

No, that's the T. scolymus, Gmelin, 1791

> In the Yucatan P (or T) gigantea is called rojo or red, to
> distinguish it from T angulata, which is negro (black).

I'm confused. Is that Pleuroploca, Triplofusus, or Fasciolaria?

> Common names aren't specific enough!

You really don't know exactly what a Florida horse conch is?

In my lifetime it's had at least three genus names, but it's still a
Florida horse conch.

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