Mind if I have a look?

Andrew

>David,
>Consider the turrid Mitromorpha.
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>Allen Aigen  NYC
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>On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:17:11 +0000 David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
>>  Dove-shell fans,
>>
>>  I've got a 9mm gastropod from western Costa Rica, almost certainly
>>  a
>>  columbellid, that doesn't fit neatly with anything from Keen's book
>>  nor from
>>  Radwin's papers on western Atlantic columbellids.
>>
>>  It's slender, almost perfectly biconic, with aperture less than half
>>  the
>>  length. No axial ribbing except faintly on the first teleoconch
>>  whorls
>>  (Zafrona?), but the periostracum is axially arranged. The primary
>>  sculpture
>>  is spiral grooving (Cosmioconcha?), even above the periphery. Outer
>>  lip has
>>  small denticles.
>>
>>  Anyone game to look at some images?
>>
>>  David Kirsh
>>  Durham, NC
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