At 12:03 AM 4/26/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>As incredible as it may seem, only one of you all answered my quest for
info about shelling in Kenya! Can I believe that none of the others ever
snorkeled or dived around Mombasa? Please try again to squeeze your
memories, cause I'm going there in two weeks!!!
>Same thing for info about Ken Sargeant, or bibliography about Kenyan or
western Indian Ocean shells.
>
>Thank you in advance !
>
>Laurent
>
 
A professor from my long-ago PhD committee often collected at Tiwi Beach, S
of Mombasa in the Coast Province, which seemed to be quite worth-while.
Many cowries. He found several things there that were not 'supposed' to be
there, like Strombus urceus and S. luhuanus. Being an weevil-expert, he
generously passed on the shells to me. There is still some material I have
never been able to ID.
 
 
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