probably so in this case.....

, but keep in mind there is a large bubble shell that occurs from
Florida  to the Caribbean that looks like B. ampulla, called Bulla
solida. I didnt know about the existence of that species until a few
years ago. Many people dont know about it but it looks just like B.
ampulla. Reaches upwards of 50mm....

On 2/6/14, Jim Brunner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just couldn't resist this thread.  In Bay County (Florida Panhandle) we have
> Shell Island, a much visited spot by tourists arriving by boats from the
> local marinas.  Soon after are arrival here in the 1980's we were shelling
> on an adjacent beach a few miles longshore drift east of Shell Island and
> came across a large Bulla ampulla.  What a range extension!  Our excitement
> was soon quelled when we learned that the marinas would send early boats out
> to "salt" the beach with any shells that were available and cheap.
>
> Jim Brunner
>
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Sue Hobbs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Harry-
>>
>> You make a very good point here.  I am actually not at all skeptical about
>> the Tonna finding, but have only been able to find records (admittedly not
>> well-searched) of it from as far north as off North Carolina.
>>
>> Sue
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Harry Lee
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 2:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Amazing Extralimital Shell Find
>>
>> Sue,
>>
>> Your faintly-veiled skepticism is, of course, well-taken, but your NJ
>> record may be legitimate inasmuch as T. galea has been reliably reported
>> from 38 degrees S latitude; why not 38 degrees N - with the collusion of
>> the Gulfstream to boost larval dispersal?
>>
>> Harry
>>
>>
>> At 02:22 PM 2/6/2014, Sue Hobbs wrote:
>>> Local fishermen have shown me several Trochus niloticus that they brought
>>> up in nets off Cape May, NJ (north Atlantic)- I assume the shells were
>>> ship ballast or on their way somewhere to be used in manufacturing
>>> (buttons, mother of pearl inlay, etc.).  Last summer, a fisherman showed
>>> a Tonna galea from near Hudson Canyon (also north Atlantic) which is a
>>> range extension, I think.
>>>
>>> Sue Hobbs
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Callomon,Paul
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Amazing Extralimital Shell Find
>>>
>>> I've seen Conus betulinus taken in a trawl in the North Sea. "Thrown
>>> overboard from a homeward-bound Russian trawler" was the best guess.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PC.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Conchologists List [ mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>> David Campbell
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 12:05 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Amazing Extralimital Shell Find
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shortly after a hurricane demolished a beach cottage with a shell
>>> collection in it, quite a number of remarkable additions to the North
>>> Carolina molluscan fauna were reported.  Hugh Porter received the reports
>>> politely, but did not include them in his publications.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Based on shell material, Crassostrea is one of the most widespread and
>>> common freshwater mollusks in North America.  The lack of live material
>>> and abundance of cooked material makes the records suspect, however.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Colonial Williamsburg uses authentic fragments shell to line some
>>> walkways, but the latest batch came from rather more offshore than the
>>> colonial oystershells - it has a lot of Arctica.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is an email i received yesterday from friend and super-naturalist
>>> Brian Cassie (Foxboro Massachusetts),  many shellers  have similar but
>>> perhaps not as dramatic stories of shells found in unexpected places:
>>>
>>>    I saw a shell outside of a house in Mattapoisett (SOUTHERN MA)  so I
>>> stopped and asked the occupants about it and the husband said that 25
>>> years
>>> ago, he saw it protruding from the side of a creek in a saltwater marsh
>>> in
>>> Sandwich....and he pulled it out and brought it home. What is it? One
>>> very
>>> large valve of a Giant Clam! And now it is up to all of us to try to
>>> figure
>>> out how that shell got there in the first place. My neighbor, Mary
>>> Malloy,
>>> is an expert on worldwide maritime things and she said, unhesitatingly,
>>> that it was probably brought over by a whaling ship and then thrown or
>>> fell
>>> overboard near shore and washed up to where it was eventually
>>> discovered.
>>> There should be several more plausible explanations. In any case, it was
>>> discovered just as I described. I wish I had been fishing that creek and
>>> found it.
>>>   Brian
>>>
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>>>
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