one qst:
how depth?
Roma
 
At 06:07 PM 5/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>Two members of the Jacksonville Shell Club have striking specimens of a
>questionably identified shell trawled from deep water off northern Honshu,
>Japan.  It has been postulated that these two specimens (of three known
>to this submitter) are a deep water form of Nucella frecineti (Deshayes,
>1841).
>
>Images of one of the three (from a direct scan of the shell on a flat-bed
>scanner) are available at:
>
>http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet.wfrank/western.htm
>
>for viewing.
>
>Any suggestions, comments, or identifications would be appreciated and
>should be sent to the two individuals cited on that page.
>
>Bill Frank
>1865 Debutante Dr.
>Jacksonville, FL 32246-8645
>Phone/FAX: (904) 724-5326
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