Dear Jenny, Dear John
 
The word specie is not onyl ablative, but is also the
Italian term for species. Maybe that the shell was coming
from an Italian collector who had on his label
specie instead of species.
 
That's all
 
yours Helmut
 
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> Jenny,
> Our word "species" comes directly from Latin "species" meaning "kind."  Our
> word "specie" is the ablative of (the nominative) "species" and it means
> "in kind" as in "payment in kind."  Thus, our two words are just two
> different case of the same Latin word.
>