Linda:

Some years ago I was in an out-of-state gift shop that had a number of
shells.  There was a nice specimen of P. pulcherrima in a small glass case
with some other showy shells, and it had a label showing locality as "Cuba."
I told the owner that the shell was endemic to Papua New Gunea and that
importation of it was illegal (it was at that time - may be different now).
He wasted no time in forcefully telling me that some of them might be from
New Guinea, but the one for sale was from Cuba!

dick

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