To all,
        The other evening one of our members brought a specimen to show us,
as her treasure.  It was a  Pterygia arctata(Sowerby, 1874) and she had
gotten it on Truk Island.  She had asked me to price it for her as she
thought that it was "RARE".  I looked in Rice's Prices (under Mitra) and
found that it was only listed from the Solomons ($35.00) and the
Philippines ($65.00)  Not so rare.  But I was wondering if anyone knows of
specimens from Truk.  Are specimens from unusual places more valuable than
from other more common locations?
        I told the woman that I'd check with Conch-L for an answer.
Dan Yoshimoto

Dan & Hiromi Yoshimoto
1164 Vista Dr.
Eureka, California
95503-6018
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