Mark,
 
Good point on that statement.  I can just see a radular tooth about the size
of a ball point pen shooting out of the water at me.  That would be a sight.
Just imagine of a species of Conus actually mutated to that precarious length.
 
-Tim
 
 
 
At 10:40 PM 1/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Or a freak experiment gone awry.
>You wrote:Where in the world did you come up
>with 15.5" for this shell - you must be using a different ruler than mine.
>DanShell
>
>I believe that the measurement taken must be 155mm or 15.5cm  for the
>gloriamaris. This would be a nice size but not too extraordinary. As for
>15.5" this is impossible unless it's a new species in that case if the
>conus are becoming that large I'm not going near the water again. Mark
>
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