south shore of Long Island- specific locality is bayside of Jones
Beach State Park

On 8/21/11, David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Where are you, Steve?
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>>From: Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Aug 21, 2011 11:34 AM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: [CONCH-L] Haminoea solitaria: giant form "insculpta"
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>>This may be a "BIG" year for our local population of glass bubble shells,
>>Haminoea solitaria. Every few years they appear in big numbers at the end
>>of summer and early fall, washing up in huge numbers and eventually showing
>>up live all over the mud in the shallows. Then they will be mostly absent
>>for a few years. Some references discuss a "giant" form called insculpta
>>Totten, reaching 18-20mm, though of no taxonomic significance. In the
>>years  when they boom, I can find a few in the 17-18mm  range out of many
>>hundreds of smaller ones. presumably at the far size end of the bell
>>curve.  This year is looking different. They are starting to show up in
>>drift in very small numbers, but about every 2nd or 3rd one is in the 18-
>>20mm+ range so far, so perhaps these are the "insculpta" of earlier
>>authors? Has anybody ever found these in that size range? In some 35 years
>>of visiting the same site, this is the first time I noticed any that big.
>>
>>Steve
>>
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