I can pretend I'm on a Caribbean island when I go to some North
Carolina beaches. Then I have to remind myself where I am when I find
some of these shells.

Yesterday on Shackelford Island, I came across a somewhat worn but
otherwise intact Hespererato maugeriae. And an aperture fragment of
Tritonoharpa lanceolata. These are both recorded in Porter's (1974)
book on NC shells. But still....

Are they fossils that washed out of one of the sand dunes or could they
be living in shallow water?

Has anyone found Prunum roscidum live or even fresh-dead--and where?
I've only found well-worn ones.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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