Tom, I appreciated you correcting me and did not mean that in a bad manner.
I wanted anyone to read it that you helped me to correct the species. Let us
hope that we get an answer.
Linda Brunner just wrote to me and said that I she had me on conch-l
noreview. She changed it so that is something new to me.
Thanks again, Phyllis
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> Hey Phyllis.
>
> I really didn't mean to correct anyone.  I just responded with the name I
> know, because I was also curious about the attached sponge or bryozoan or
> whatever.  Frankly, I did not notice use of X pallida instead of X
> pallidula.  Such errors slip in all the time, thus the Compendium has
> Neritina puncticulata Lamarck, 1816 instead of the original spelling by
> Lamarck as punctulata.
>
> I have been a Xenophora fan for a long time and finally getting the chance
> to obtain X lamberti at this last COA convention was a real treat.  And it
> was all because Doris Underwood knew I was interested and let me know the
> folks from new Caledonia had some specimens.  Now I just have to wait for
> that Hawaiian endemic to show up.
>
> Tom E.
>

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