The following is a passage from a manuscript I am working on (Northeast
Florida shells):

"469. Recluzia rollandiana  Petit de la Saussaye, 1853  Brown Janthina  [5]
 11 mm.
Drift, St. Augustine Beach. PJ! 1981. (PJ).
A Sargassum-associated species like Litiopa melanostoma (no. 274)."

PJ! means collected by Paul Jones (now residing in Sicily with the US
Navy). [5] means rare (actually only a single specimen (seen by me).  In
Florida this appears to be a rare species (at least in collections).

Harry


At 07:25 PM 10/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>I was looking at some of my shell books yesterday and I found that
>>Recluzia lutea feeds upon the Minyas Sea Amemone.  For some reason if
>>the populations of the Minya Sea Amemone decline then obviously the
>>Recluzia poulation will decline along with it.  So far no one has
>>directly reponded to my inquiry about this shell.  I guess no one on
>>Conch-L has ever heard about anyone collecting one of these shells.
>>
>>Andrew Dickson
>
>I have one, 25 mm, real good condition obtained from Ross Mayhew in 1995;
>presumably "90-mile Beach, New Zealand 35 m sand".
>It looks like the picture in Powell, who says the correct name is
>rollandiana Petit, 1853 because Janthina lutea Bennett, 1840 is
indeterminate.
>
>(And I had it under Naticidae. Thanks for waking me up)
>
>
>John Wolff
>2640 Breezewood Dr.
>Lancaster, PA 17601, U.S.A.
>
Harry G. Lee
Suite 500
1801 Barrs St.
Jacksonville, Fl. 32204
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