Bob is referring to the discarded habit I had of tucking the occasional
specimen under a lip while netting in the Keys. Some of the neurotoxins did
numbers on me. I had my whole face anesthetized once by a marginellid.
 
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> From: Betty and Bob Lipe <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Article 59c of the Code
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 3:29 PM
>
> Maurizio,  I've been collecting and calling it Jaspidella jaspidea
> (Gmelin, 1791) for many many years now, and never thought anything about
> it.  It's more like an olivella than a olive.  I'm sure you will get a
> more intelligent and scientific answer than this.  Maybe Phil Poland
> will tell you what happens when you have no where to hold a shell when
> you are screening in chest deep water and put one in your mouth, and
> then again he may not want to say.
>
> Bob Lipe
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