Scott,

Tom means that it its Theba pisana. She is colored like this shell, but she
is more globose and seems to be
thicker. Whats about a Polymita species. At the moment I don't have all the
variability at the hand to
see the different colors of this species, but I can be a Polymita ot
something like this.
Helmut

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> Scott,
>
> I readily bow out to the identifications you have received on the cerion
and
> the number two shell, but I still think the first shell looks like Theba
> pisana.  Land shell folks -- have these not been introduced in the
Bahamas?
> I thought they were almost everywhere.
>
> Tom
>