It might be interesting to see what shells listers have found that they wouldn't ordinarily have found except through the courtesy of hermit crab habitation.

There was one notable half-day of collecting at one of the Eleuthera beaches when I started off finding a crabbed Cassis flammea in four feet of water in good shape (ten minutes later, a live C. madagascariensis in 12 feet). Then, a quick check of intertidal crab colonies on rocks at the same beach yielded Fastigiella carinata, Calliostoma pulchrum, some crimson Tegula gruneri, Splendrillia fucata and Strictispira paxillus, among others. (The coral pink Conus jaspideus was not crabbed.)

That was a good half-day of shelling. Thanks, hermits!

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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