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>>First, a 350mm Entemnotrochus rumphii...the thought makes me shiver...ah!
>>I WANT ONE! Maybe sometime.
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>>Second, I have noticed the oversized opercula of Caliostoma ligatum
>>here on my coast...and, yes, they are hard to put back in nicely.
If I remember rightly, C. annulatum, that most beautiful trochid of
all, has an oversized operc.
>PS...of all the Pleurotomariids, this is the one I want...just this
>one...it's enough! The
>wonderful $6000 US specimen I got to hold at the Tacoma COA bourse almost made
>my cry! Wow!
$6000???????
I got my first for $82.00. It's only 54mm in diameter, with damaged
slit & chipped lip, but live-collected and with excellent
sculpture... and that WIERD near-fluorescent olive-yellow!
I have a Taiwanese dealer looking for a giant for me... in any condition.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
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Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
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