That wants me to ask about what makes the color lines and some - was the
damage
so bad that the ?hormones? or whatever they have were altered for a
lifetime ?

Could the shell  be so damaged that it killed the first and a larva took
over ?

Interesting .

Martin

On 6/8/2013 8:42 PM, Steve Rosenthal wrote:
> one interesting dead Liguus i picked up  in the Florida  Redlands makes me
> wonder about the robustness of the named forms....this guy started out as
> castaneozonatus, and then has a break/mend on the body whorl about half an
> inch from the growing edge of the lip, and from the mend to the lip, the
> shell has no more black bands,  just thin pencil lines of color,  not
> unlike other named forms, but nothing like castaneozonatus.
>
> is that unusual?
>
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