Hi Peggy,

Big as a fist? Do you have the length?

I know what you mean about always looking. And looking twice. I've found that if I scan a line of shell grit twice, I often pick up something new the second time around. As I mentioned before, the small T. triangularis I just found was about to be discarded because it was well camouflaged--looked like a chunk of dead coral.

David

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>From: Peggy Williams <[log in to unmask]>

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>I was once at Green Turtle Key in the Abacos, bored waiting for
>others to come to shore. Just for something to do I picked up a fist-
>sized rock sitting in clean sand with nothing else nearby (less than
>a foot of water) and found a large trianguaris! Moral: it pays to
>keep looking, and don't assume you know everything!
>


Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. - Rachel Carson, early 1960s

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