>Hello, CONCH-Lers!
>
>O.K., I've got another puzzling shell - if I took the
>perio. off, I could probably identify it easier, but then
>someone in the club might want it with the periostracum
>intact.  I have been able to narrow it down to the genus
>Fusitriton.  My problem is that the varices are not just
>rounded projections, they protrude and are concave on the
>growing side, so that one could stick a pencil or
>something slightly bigger under them.

That doesn't sound like Fusitriton.

>  The periostracum is
>chocolate brown

That doesn't sound like Fusitriton either...

>and somewhat hairy.  I cannot find an
>image that looks as if it has these definitive varices.
>
>Ideas, anyone?

Image please, Linda?
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