>     I just arrived from Sourthern Palawan collecting seashells, first time
>in the Philippines I found this size of Siphonariidae 3 inches or 75mm quite
>big size, in the Philippines this is the biggest, I don't know to other
>country. anybody knows bigger to this.

Are these common?

New Zealand has a large siphonariid, locally common. It is Benhamina
obliquata (Sowerby 1825), originally described as a Siphonaria... and
I am unsure whether Benhamina should be synonymized.

Anyway, it "officially" reaches 65mm, and I am sure that 75mm is
attained occasionally.
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