Dear Andrew,

Thanks for taking the time to look through so many of my micros and offering your ideas on their IDs. I'm hoping that some of them can be narrowed down as you've done and perhaps named by a specialist. I think there's value in having these images on the internet since there's a scarcity of them.

For instance, someone (I don't know who) will instantly recognize such a distinctive shell as the putative "Lambis juvenile" on
http://z14.invisionfree.com/Conchologist_Forum/index.php?showforum=32

But I couldn't find anything on the web by googling for combined "protoconch" and "Lambis". For the many shellers who are quite familiar with common adult shells, it's interesting that few recognize some of these shells at an early stage of development. Myself included.

David Kirsh
Durham, NC


“My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.” -- Sergei Prokofiev

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