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Re: Its a Horse
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David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 12:59:51 -0400
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>Is the scientific name of the shell Pleuroploca gigantea? If so, it's what
>we call in the States a Horse Conch.
 
The genus Triplofusus (Olsson and Harbison, 1953) is probably more
appropriate for this species and its close relatives than Pleuroploca.
 
David Campbell
 
"Old Seashells"
 
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
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