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Hello.
The images didn't open (Unknown file format) and I didn't see what Bill (I
assume it was Bill Frank of Jacksonville) had to say either.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kirsh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: sinister but righteous?
> Thanks, gentlemen, for your even-handed approach to this problem.
>
> Speaking of Shackelford, it just so happens that that is where I picked up
a
> live, sinistral Busycon yesterday. I scanned it, just out of my freezer.
No,
> I'm afraid it's not a living fossil; doesn't have the character of John
> Timmerman's Shackelford beasts. This is typical sinistrum.
>
> The thing I noticed was its yellow aperture with contrasting violet
stripe,
> unlike Phil's description of a generally white aperture.
>
> I'll send a jpeg of the scans to Bill and Phil and to anyone who would
like
> to see.
>
> (What's B. laeostomum look like? You surprised me once again--with a new
> Atlantic whelk species in my old neighborhood, Harry.)
>
> David
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