Dear Maurizio,

I found Oliva spicata at Posada Concepcion, Bahia Concepcion, on the Bahia
de los Angeles in 1977.

(A fellow collector donated a couple of specimens from Guaymas, Sonora, but
that's not Baja.)

Hope that's helpful.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

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>From: "Maurizio A. Perini" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Baja's Oliva spicata
>Date: Sun, Oct 22, 2000, 9:46 AM
>

>Sunday   October 22, 2000   10:22 am
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I'm just come back to home from my yearly trip to Baja
>California. As some of you know I'm making a map of
>distribution of Oliva spicata on both West and East Baja's
>coast.
>
>This year I was not very lucky. The weather was cloudy,
>yes cloudy ! We also met the rain in the Vizcaino desert !
>The southern part of the peninsula is unusually very green
>right now.
>
>I don't know if the weather influences the oliva's behavior yet,
>but - where I presumed to find them - they were totally absent !!
>I followed also some information I got by local people but again
>no success.
>
>I was especially unlucky to Bahia de Los Angels ( Gulf side )
>and to Bahia Magdalena on Pacific coast. I'm sure that Oliva
>spicata is present in both those places due to I found some
>beached specimens.
>Does anyone have direct experience with O.spicata over there ?
>
>I'm very interested into the population of spicata which lives
>to Bahia Magdalena because I suppose this is the only one
>population which is present on the Pacific side of Baja.
>Furthermore that bay is (almost surely) the most northern place
>of  the O.spicata's distribution range on the Pacific Coast.
>In Bahia Magdalena I was looking for O.spicata on the beach
>in front of Puerto San Carlos at extreme low tide ( full moon at
>2.30 am !!! - Bullas and big moon-shells was very plentiful, but
>no olives ) and by snorkeling into the water around San Buto.
>
>Because this my failure I am forced to return there next year.
>So that I would be very grateful if anyone has detailed information
>about those places.
>
>Many thanks for your attention and kindest regards to all,
>
>Maurizio
>from Italy.
>
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