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shelloak <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:59:25 -0500
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You are all wrong, you should see the one owned by George Karleskent Sr. of
St. Louis, MO it is really a monster.  John
 
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> From: mark <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: I'm Back!!!!!!
> Date: Sunday, June 21, 1998 3:34 PM
>
> Hello all,
> Thank you Tom for acknowledging my lack of response and yes the
Prometheus
> Cone or conus pulcher is very hard to obtain in a size over 100 mm. I
> personally have a specimen in my collection that is from the X-Powell
> expedition of 1927 and is over 125 mm, I have seen a specimen at about
180
> mm  at the Broward Shell Show .
> The record as of this date is 250 mm  (25cm) owned by the American museum
of
> natural history and collected in Senegal in 1977. The pulcher is the
largest
> of the conus family and is vormavorius. There have not been any reported
> fatalities from the sting of the pulcher as it is not discoveries.
> Mark James Bethke

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