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Date: | Fri, 31 Aug 2001 08:07:23 -0500 |
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Here's another i.d. question (surprise) - you'd think I was a
beginning collector. No, just becoming more persnickity
(spelling?) about my collection.
Question: How does one distinguish Mitra fillaregina from
Mitra taeniatum (synonym supposedly vittata)? I have lways thought my "hollowe'en colored Miter was taeniatum, but there is an image of fillaegina on e-Bay that makes me wonder if I am right?
Using the Compendium, my shell has many more ribs - about
twenty on the next to the body whorl and are low less prominent than those on fillaregina, thus giving a more rounded
shape than the fillaregina pictured; and there are four plicae on the columella.
Help!
Thanks,
Linda
P.S. There is nothing like attending a COA convention to make
a collectorwant to be more exact in identifying the shells in one's shells. Again, this shell came, without data, from one of the founders of our club, when I was just a begiinning collector.
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