On the Syrinx aruanus

Don Pisor's World Record size 772 mm Syrinx aruanus
As recorded by: Wagner & Abbott, then by Don Pisor & Kim Hutsell,
(& also recorded in Hawaiian Shell News V 30:7, pg 11, JULY 1982),
was procured a couple years back for a very heft sum
and is now in the collection of, and on exhibit at:
The Houston Museum of Natural Science

Leslie

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Top 25 list of recent marine shelled molluscs

772 Syrinx aruanus

I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this because I cannot locate my 1990 Wagner &
Abott list of record shells (may have discarded it). But my database shows 914
mm for Syrinx aruanus. If not a typo, that number probably came from that list.
Could someone double-check that?
        John Wolff

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