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Re: Mystery item
From:
David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:01:19 -0500
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This was fairly common in beach drift on Margarita Island during my Labor
Day w/e trip. Looks like Olivella minuta is a frequent foundation for this
colony.

David Kirsh

> From: "Thomas E. Eichhorst" <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:12:16 -0600
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> Subject: Re: Mystery item
>
> Those look like a species of Hippoporidra, a bryozoan colony that builds its
> structure on a small gastropod shell.  The shell is often then inhabited by
> a hermit crab.
>
> Tom E.

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