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John Wolff <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:46:59 -0400
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The 1999 "Registry" shows a 65.5mm specimen owned by the Sunderlands.

John


>>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.
>--
>Andrew Grebneff

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