I can't remember where I read it, but I once read that there is only one
species in Recluzia, viz. R. lutea, and that all others are synonyms. R.
lutea occurs world wide.

Gijs

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> Van: Thomas A. Burch, MD <[log in to unmask]>
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> Onderwerp: Re: A rare shell - Recluzia lutea
> Datum: donderdag 21 oktober 1999 19:51
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> I've never collected a Recluzia lutea but I did collect a Recluzia
palmeri
> Dall which is also a rare shell.  This was a live specimen actually in a
> tide pool in the upper Gulf of California just north of Cholla Bay on the
> Sonora side of the Gulf.  This was illustrated in the July 1995 Hawaiian
> Shell News vol. 43, no. 7,  page 2.  The shell, hoever, was only 9 mm.
>                        Aloha,  Tom Burch
>
>
>
> At 07:17 PM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear Conch-L'ers,
> >
> >Something just came to me.  I have known about Recluzia lutea for a long
> >time.  I have never seen one or even heard of someone collecting one of
> >these shells.  Have any one out there collected one of these.  It is a
> >delicate brown pelagic shell related to the Janthinas.
> >
> >Andrew Dickson
> >