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Hello all
I have a Conus pulcher too, about 130 mm (maybe also more), but I can't measure it now as this shell is at the exhibition of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum behind glass. But this specimen is quite large and old perforated by a spugna and I got it from Ramon Gomez Ramirez from Santa Cruz de la Palma.
best greetings from Innsbruck (Austria)
yours Helmut Nisters
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> Hello all,
> Thank you Tom for acknowledging my lack of response and yes the Prometheus
> Cone or conus pulcher is very hard to obtain in a size over 100 mm. I
> personally have a specimen in my collection that is from the X-Powell
> expedition of 1927 and is over 125 mm, I have seen a specimen at about 180
> mm at the Broward Shell Show .
> The record as of this date is 250 mm (25cm) owned by the American museum of
> natural history and collected in Senegal in 1977. The pulcher is the largest
> of the conus family and is vormavorius. There have not been any reported
> fatalities from the sting of the pulcher as it is not discoveries.
> Mark James Bethke
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