Linda Bush wrote:

> Hi, Everyone!
>
> Along this line, I had a friend who insists the S.pugilisi occurs on the Gulf coast of Florida.   I do have all orange specimens of a Strombus from there, but I have always assumed that they were color forms of alatus.  Am I "off base?"
>
> Thanks,
> Linda

I have a solid light orange, a purple, an orange and brown, and a brown.

All four were collected at the same time from a single colony on the
outside of the main reef south of the Lake Worth pier.

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