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Subject:	Re: Cypraea stercoraria - addendum
From:	Paul Monfils <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 5 May 1998 16:57:40 -0400
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P.S. - Another use of the same prefix in the shell world is Conus
stercusmuscarum and Cerithium stercusmuscarum.  Both these species
are marked with tiny dark dots, and the name indicates that the dots
look like the excrement (stercus) of flies (muscarum, from the Latin
musca - fly).
 
Paul M.

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