Where are you, Steve?


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>From: Steve Rosenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Aug 21, 2011 11:34 AM
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>Subject: [CONCH-L] Haminoea solitaria: giant form "insculpta"
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>This may be a "BIG" year for our local population of glass bubble shells,
>Haminoea solitaria. Every few years they appear in big numbers at the end
>of summer and early fall, washing up in huge numbers and eventually showing
>up live all over the mud in the shallows. Then they will be mostly absent
>for a few years. Some references discuss a "giant" form called insculpta
>Totten, reaching 18-20mm, though of no taxonomic significance. In the
>years  when they boom, I can find a few in the 17-18mm  range out of many
>hundreds of smaller ones. presumably at the far size end of the bell
>curve.  This year is looking different. They are starting to show up in
>drift in very small numbers, but about every 2nd or 3rd one is in the 18-
>20mm+ range so far, so perhaps these are the "insculpta" of earlier
>authors? Has anybody ever found these in that size range? In some 35 years
>of visiting the same site, this is the first time I noticed any that big.
>
>Steve
>
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