Leslie Allen Crnkovic wrote:
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> I for one appreciate form names which identify consistent varieties which
> are found within a species.  Often the characteristics which cause it to
> have its form distinction are strictly environmental or dietary.  Even
> though a specimen may change its form characteristics by relocation and or
> interbreeding it doe put a face on the depth of the shells we so admire.
>

NO! Dietary and environmental conditions do not affect the color characters
of Liguus. Little or poor food may stunt growth, plentiful food and humidity
enhances growth. Transplanted keys snails may grow to larger average size
in the Everglades because of better host (food) trees than the scrubby trees
on some key hammocks.

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> If I dug into literature enough I would not be surprised to find that
> Jamaica and the rest of the Greater Antilles have there own Liguus Species
> too.

NO! There are no Liguus elsewhere than Florida, Cuba (and coastal keys)
and Hispaniola.

Later,

Emilio Jorge Power