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> >> I've got a beachworn orange-brown 15mm gastropod from the Pacific coast of
>>> Costa Rica for which I'm not even certain of the family.
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>>> It's got reticulate sculpturing, fusiform shape, two columellar plications,
>>> and a squared shoulder just below the suture. I don't see anything similar
> >> in Keen's book.
That is a cancellariid for sure, probably a juvenile. It might be
Crawfordina crawfordiana (Dall 1919), by the fasciole, but the
colabral ribs and shoulders don't look right.
I'll try a sure source... stay tuned!
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
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