Hi Phil, that's good. no harm with the conch-l thing.

As I mentioned in a prior email, all the SE FL shells were
self-collected by Ira Nadborne. He lives in AZ now; through a  set of
circumstances I was able to liberate his shells from a storage unit
in FL while on a work trip nearby. They hadn't seen the light  of day
in something like 35 years and were at risk of being junked by the
storage unit complex.

I don't know or cant remember  what that one label refers to,

re the Polystira, somehow I wound up bringing  back two lots of them
on that trip- some w/o and larger  were night dived by Wayne Harland
in Utila Bay, Honduras. but then there was at least one from Ira's
collection that said from Shrimp Trawlers in the FL keys, with an old
label from "westbrooks house of shells" I would have to see the shell
in question, is it possible that label means it was separated from the
other Polystria nobilis I kept here? that's possible.



On 10/23/14, PHILIP FALLON <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Your package arrived safely yesterday.  I took a quick look at its
> contents last night (about 18 sandwich baggies and a few other
> miscellaneous bags) but will get a closer look this weekend.  Who was
> the collector of  the Key Biscayne material?  Your self-collected
> specimens from Kice Island had 2 species: Pyrgospira ostrearum and
> Crassispira sanibelensis (aka Zonulispira crocata), the latter being a
> nice find.  There is also a bag with the label "separated from the group
> 1 specimens".  Do you know where these and the Polystira albida (large
> white shell) are from?
> More later,
> Phil
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Steve Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> As an update, three additional specimens of Kurtziella cerina have
>> been found in the same exact spot from mid-September thorugh today
>> 10/22 ; on average this species has  been found about 1 out of every 3
>> visits, though the sample size is quite small.  The most recent find
>> (2 specimens on 20 Oct) was within  a couple of days after some strong
>> NW winds (the beach faces north).
>> On 20 Oct  I also found a fresh dead Gyroscala rupicola which is the
>> first recent record from Western LI Sound  I know of since the LI
>> shell club publication; prior records from Bayville NY ( a mile or two
>> to the east) are cited therein
>>
>> One paired, and several single valve Nucula proxima were found earlier
>> in October.
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