Kurt's other pet name by the Astronaut Trail Shell Club is "STUD MUFFIN"!!!!

Kurt Auffenberg wrote:

> Obviously, I had not had a sufficient amount of coffee to be responding to Conch-L....the species to which I earlier referred was Ellobium pellucens, not Tralia ovula....my apologies.....I guess, I too, join the ranks of those having never collected the later....
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> Kurt
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> At 08:15 AM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>      Never found a live one, but plenty of 'fresh-dead' specimens near the lighthouse on Sanibel....Kurt
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>      At 05:34 PM 6/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>           Well that was certainly a misogynist farewell. Reminds me of why I'm a feminist.
>           On the subject of snails:
>           Why, after thirty years of scouring Southeast Florida shores and finding far more obscure species, can't I find one Live Tralia ovula (Bruguiere, 1789), family melampidae? Has anyone out there ever seen it alive in the U.S.?
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>      Mr. Kurt Auffenberg
>      Senior Biological Scientist
>      Exhibits & Public Programs
>      University of Florida
>      Hull Road & SW 34th Street
>      Powell Hall, P.O. Box 112710
>      Gainesville, Florida 32611-2710
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>      Telephone: 352-846-2000, ext. 253
>      Fax: 352-846-0253
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> Mr. Kurt Auffenberg
> Senior Biological Scientist
> Exhibits & Public Programs
> University of Florida
> Hull Road & SW 34th Street
> Powell Hall, P.O. Box 112710
> Gainesville, Florida 32611-2710
>
> Telephone: 352-846-2000, ext. 253
> Fax: 352-846-0253