I have to add something here, I have a bag of shells from various parts of
the world that are not in a condition worth trading of even giving to
someone. i was about to toss them in the trash shot but couldn't waste them
, i took the bag to the beach behind our building and dumped them so some
tourists could find the shells.
curse me as you will but i figure it was recycling....mark
 
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From: Bill Frank <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: unusual Floridian taxa
 
 
>There is no doubt that some Indo Pacific species can be found living in
>Florida waters - expecially near busy commercial shipping ports -
>obviously due to ballast water exchange/dumping.
>
>One instance of a foreign import turning up is chronicled on our home
>page (past newsletter articles - H.G. Lee) where the species caused
>considerable problems at a local power plant (Northside Generating
>Station).
>
>Circa. 1993, Mary Bukstel (Broward Shell Club) collected alive adult
>Pinctada mazatlanica (Hanley, 1856) during a dive off
>Boynton Beach at a depth of 90 feet.  The identification was
>confirmed by Tucker Abbott.  I have subsequently heard that
>additional specimens have been found.
>
>I can also recollect reports of Miami Beach, upon occasion, being
>"salted" with shells some 20-30 years ago.
>
>Likewise, some Caribbean species can be found in areas where
>they obviously never lived.  Earlier this year while shelling the
>Halifax River at Port Orange with P. Poland and Marlo Krisberg,
>I found a dead adult Cittarium pica - obviously placed there by
>someone discarding the shell.
>
>Bill Frank
>1865 Debutante Dr.
>Jacksonville, FL 32246-8645
>Phone/FAX: (904) 724-5326
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