Dear Ed,

It is said that a picture (two in this case) is worth a thousand words.
Text and images at:
<http://home.sprynet.com/~wfrank/reverse.htm>
should lower your densitometry rating.

Harry


At 11:46 AM 7/4/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Sorry to be a bit of a thicky but how do you tell if a shell is sinistral? I
>have quite a number of conus ventricosus. Maybe I need to take another look
>at them :-))) Can a Cyp be sinistral?
>
>Ed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>Behalf Of Harry G. Lee
>Sent: 03 July 2000 11:34
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Sinistal-related
>
>
>http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9901C&L=conch-l&P=R3623 02:39
>AM 1/18/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>Conch-L'ers,
>>
>>To the references made earlier on abnormally-reversed Conus species, let me
>>add that I have sinistral specimens of tghe following cones in my
>collection:
>>
>>Conus anabathrum Crosse, 1865
>>Conus baccatus Sowerby, 1877
>>Conus furvus Reeve, 1843
>>Conus infrenatus Reeve, 1848
>>Conus tinianus Hwass, 1792
>>Conus ventricosus Gmelin, 1791
>>
>>

Harry G. Lee
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