A unit like that would be very nice to have when coming across
a shell that is just color or nominal different from another.
Might be a local environment that alters it.

Might be nice to have a mass spec option.  Tells you it is laced
with DDT or phosphate making it have a distorted shell or color.

Brave new world!  Next need item for a ship cruse....

Big question - shell only ?  Plants, and other groups could
use it if adaptable.

Martin

marlo wrote:
> Hi Winston,
>
> I've seen the same combinations you indicated, but prefer to just consider
> the unique Lake Worth colony "hybrids."  See photos and discussion:
>
> http://z14.invisionfree.com/Conchologist_Forum/index.php?showtopic=1208
>
> We did indeed take samples of these shells and their DNA analysis will be
> added to the data base.  However, at this time Dr. Paulay's Florida
> initiative is devoted to data collection and data base development.
> Comparative analysis will await the initiative of others more specifically
> investigating Strombs.  Click this link to read more about the Florida
> Marine Invertebrates Genetic Barcoding Initiative:
>
> http://z14.invisionfree.com/Conchologist_Forum/index.php?showtopic=1178
>
> Marlo
> merritt island, fl
>
>
> Thursday, At 11:15 AM, Harry replied:
>
> Dear Winston,
>
> I think there are enough names already.
>
> Perhaps we'll learn something of the intergradation of these two
> morphospecies with the genetic barcoding initiative of Dr. Gustav Paulay and
> his collaborators at the Florida Museum of Natural History and elsewhere. I
> think they may have obtained tissue of each taxon in March, 2008 during an
> expedition to Peanut Is. Conch-L'er Marlo Krisberg was a member of the
> party; perhaps he recalls.
>
> For now, I think it is fine to simply consider Peanut Is. the metropolis of
> hybridization between the Carolinian S. alatus and Caribbean S. pugilis as
> we currently understand those two species.
>
> Harry
>
>
> At 10:54 AM 10/16/2008, you wrote:
>
> Some questions arise after viewing the Peanut Island list:
> Is there an accepted name applied to Strombus alatus with introgression of
> S. pugilis?
> I have seen  S.pugilis /alatus  and  S. alatus /pugilis  , but never  S
> alatus x pugilis
> Is this an appropriate example of the term  clinal form  ?
> If it is considered a  form , does it have a name?
>
> Winston Barney
>
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