>Dear Listers, I was shelling @ John U. Lloyd State Park in shallow water
>yesterday and found the biggest Cancellaria reticulata (Linnaeus, 1767)
>aka: Common Nutmeg. It measures just over 2 1/2 inches and was found
>dead in exceptionally good condition except for an abraded apex (spire).
>The field guides I have consulted list 1 1/2 inches as the mature
>size....is this one unusually large, or what? Please advise. Thanks,
>Christopher J. Stalder...email: [log in to unmask]

Might be one of the closely-related species... some of these attain
rather large size.
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