>Is the scientific name of the shell Pleuroploca gigantea? If so, it's what
>we call in the States a Horse Conch.
The genus Triplofusus (Olsson and Harbison, 1953) is probably more
appropriate for this species and its close relatives than Pleuroploca.
David Campbell
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