Hello all Pulcherists,
 
We were able to measure my specimen. It's 156 mm large.
 
yours Helmut
 
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> Hello all
>
> I have a Conus pulcher too, about 130 mm (maybe also more), but I can't
> measure it now as this shell is at the exhibition of the Tiroler Landesmuseum
> Ferdinandeum behind glass. But this specimen is quite large and old perforated
> by a spugna and I got it from Ramon Gomez Ramirez from Santa Cruz de la Palma.
>
> best greetings from Innsbruck (Austria)
>
> yours Helmut Nisters
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> > Hello all,
> > Thank you Tom for acknowledging my lack of response and yes the Prometheus
> > Cone or conus pulcher is very hard to obtain in a size over 100 mm. I
> > personally have a specimen in my collection that is from the X-Powell
> > expedition of 1927 and is over 125 mm, I have seen a specimen at about 180
> > mm  at the Broward Shell Show .
> > The record as of this date is 250 mm  (25cm) owned by the American museum of
> > natural history and collected in Senegal in 1977. The pulcher is the largest
> > of the conus family and is vormavorius. There have not been any reported
> > fatalities from the sting of the pulcher as it is not discoveries.
> > Mark James Bethke
> >
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