Dear Harry and others interested in Neverita distribution in the S.E. US,

Concerning the geographical distribution of Neverita delessertiana recently
discussed on Conch-L, I rechecked the one lot of Neverita delessertiana we
reported from East Florida (Cocoa, central East Florida) in our 2006 paper
(Hülsken et al., Zootaxa 1257, pp. 8, 20) cited by you in your response to
Marlo¹s question.
The lot mentioned in the paper contains 6 specimens allegedly collected in
1946 in ³Cocoa, Florida², 3 of which clearly are Neverita delessertiana
while the other 3 are equally clearly Neverita duplicata. However, the lot
has been purchased (in 1993) from ³The Sea², a now defunct shellshop in San
Pedro, Los Angeles. As many of the lots for sale in that shop were located
in cabinets accessible to the customers, it cannot be excluded that this
particular lot might have gotten mixed with specimens originating from
another locality, possibly a Gulf of Mexico locality. Therefore, one should
not put too much weight on this particular piece of evidence for an East
coast occurence of N. delessertiana.

Best regards,

Michael

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