One of the reasons to be suspect of a shell which is "dead-collected" is
that you do not know how it came to be where you found it.  Perhaps it
really did live there.  Perhaps a fisherman found it somewhere else?
Karlynn Morgan
NC-USA

On 6/10/2012 10:19 PM, Ellen Bulger wrote:
> Eleuthera, yes. Cape Eleuthera, Millar's, Half Sound or Winding Bay. I
> can totally see it.
>
> But Tarpum Bay???
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Harry G. Lee <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
>     Jim's story is put in context here:
>     http://www.jaxshells.org/bobwork.htm.
>
>     Harry
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: James Miller
>         Sent: Jun 10, 2012 12:09 PM
>         To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>         Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Your Cymatium
>
>         Hi Ellen,
>
>         As Jim should recall, I have found both Cymatium femorale
>         (2001) and Cymatium raderi (2003, I believe) on Eleuthera. I
>         believe Paul Kanner has a smaller raderi from there with a
>         thick perio.
>
>         Best regards,
>         Jim
>
>         On Jun 9, 2012, at 4:38 PM, Ellen Bulger wrote:
>
>>         Heh, you want something weird? I'm sitting in the Rock Sound
>>         Airport in Eleuthera with Jim Cordy typing this, waiting on
>>         our plane (love Twin Air, but they schedule in a freeform
>>         island sort of way).
>>
>>         I found, yesterday, in Tarpum Bay, a Cymatium femorale. It
>>         was dead, about four and a half inches. If I had found a
>>         penguin there, I would not have been any less surprised.
>
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