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Yes, this occurred at one of their gig(a)s.
Karen
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Helmut Nisters wrote:
> I know what is Strombus samba. When the musicians were blowing
> on Strombus gigas, a part of them danced Samba Ha, ha, ha.
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> Helmut from Innsbruck
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> Helmut Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone and fax: 0443 / 512 / 57 32 14
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> url: www.netwing.at/nisters/
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> or
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> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> malacological collection
> Feldstr. 11a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37
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> > Since we have been hitting the Strombus gigas recently. Has anyone
> > noticed a difference between the S. gigas from the Keys and the S. gigas
> > now available from Haiti? I have a couple S. gigas collected in the
> > Keys years ago and they have relatively small knobs on the spire whorls
> > out onto the last whorl, rather than the obvious spines I see on most
> > shells now offered. Is this just a coincidence or is there really some
> > variability?
> >
> > Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
> >
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