I've collected a very large Benhamina obliquata 53.1mm in NZ, larger than the specimen listed 51.7mm - but had no idea there was a
website with shells from New Zealand with sizes.
I guess there must be much larger specimens in private or museum collections which are not registered as Martin pointed here. Many
collectors don't bother registering their own records, so one can imagine if any museum would care about it too.
We have a similar page in our club - but it considers only specimen collected in Brazil
http://www.conchasbrasil.org.br/english/records/
And we keep a page in our website with all records we have had - some are no longer a record, but can be checked for curiosity
http://www.femorale.com.br/records/
The first lists had old records from Museums and I will keep them on mind when checking sizes even if there are no pictured
specimens. If we don't consider these it makes no sense to keep recording sizes.
Marcus
Marcus Coltro
WWW.FEMORALE.COM
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Subject: [CONCH-L] World Record Size of Siphonaria (Benhamina) obliquata
Hi Harry and all,
The Register of Largest NZ Shells <http://nz_seashells.tripod.com/RLNZS.xls> maintained by Auckland Shell Club on their website
http://nz_seashells.tripod.com/ records 66.3mm for a shell of
Siphonaria (Benhamina) obliquata Sowerby, 1825 held at National Museum of New Zealand, (Te Papa), Wellington, being a beached
specimen collected in 1964 by Frank Climo, in NW Nelson.
By the way, this free-to-anyone, online, spreadsheet-based listing records the largest shells of any NZ species in the possession of
collectors worldwide. Peter Poortman, who maintains the list, welcomes anyone's contributions and his contact details and all
information about the registering of record sizes for New Zealand shells are on the website.
Regards,
Martin Walker
Auckland, New Zealand.
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