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Mind if I have a look?
Andrew
>David,
>Consider the turrid Mitromorpha.
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>Allen Aigen NYC
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>On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:17:11 +0000 David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Dove-shell fans,
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>> I've got a 9mm gastropod from western Costa Rica, almost certainly
>> a
>> columbellid, that doesn't fit neatly with anything from Keen's book
>> nor from
>> Radwin's papers on western Atlantic columbellids.
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>> It's slender, almost perfectly biconic, with aperture less than half
>> the
>> length. No axial ribbing except faintly on the first teleoconch
>> whorls
>> (Zafrona?), but the periostracum is axially arranged. The primary
>> sculpture
>> is spiral grooving (Cosmioconcha?), even above the periphery. Outer
>> lip has
>> small denticles.
>>
>> Anyone game to look at some images?
>>
>> David Kirsh
>> Durham, NC
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