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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