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Re: "Rare Shells"
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Dale Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:42:11 -0400
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Thanks, Fabio.  And thanks to all the rest of you for your replies.


---- Wiggers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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A shell is crabbed when it is inhabited by a crab, not a mollusk. There are many species of Pagurus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagurus), all of them live inside shells. Sometimes they even eat the mollusk and take the shell for themselves. As they grow, they must change shells for bigger ones. Some shells are very hard to find if not crabbed.Â

best regards,

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Dr. Fabio Wiggers
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 De: Dale Snyder <[log in to unmask]>
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Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 11 de Junho de 2012 16:08
Assunto: Re: [CONCH-L] "Rare Shells"

I know this sounds ignorant, but I want to be sure my understanding of "crabbed"Â  is correct. When you use this term, are you saying it was caught while fishing for crabs? Or are you saying crabs had damaged it, or something else?

Although I've been collecting shells among beach drift for many years, I'm not familiar with the jargon you more experienced and educated collectors use.

---- Wayne Harland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Conus lightbourni, Petuch, 1986.  I don't know of a live taken specimen, all were crabbed specimens taken from very deep water off Bermuda.

Wayne

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