It could very well be you collected a few "wedding shells" or shells that someone returned to the ocean after a relative died? Karlynn NC - USA On 2/26/2024 12:34 PM, JOHN A CRAMER wrote: > We went to the 2023 COA in Wilmington (great job, NC club!) and of > course we wandered around looking for shells. The collection of stuff > from Kure Beach has been sitting on my desk since then and I finally > got to it yesterday. I have a true limpet that really seemed out of > place. Then I looked at the drupe and saw the little thorn on the > bottom of the lip! What have is definitely /Lottia pelta/ and > /Acanthina paucilirata. /The limpet I have indeed collected in > California (long ago) but the drupe, another Californian, is new to > me. There is not the slightest chance the shells got mixed into the > Kure Beach stuff from other stuff here. They were there in the sand at > Kure Beach just waiting for me to sift them out. > OK, time for whoever has been salting the beach to 'fess up. > / > / > / > / > Emeritus Professor of Physics > Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA > ebooks at > https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=John+Cramer > paperback books at > https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=john+a.+cramer&type=&pn=2 > <https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=john+a.+cramer&type=&pn=2> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on > molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link: > http://listserv.uga.edu/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?SUBED1=conch-l-L&A=1 Type > your email address and name in the appropriate box and click leave the > list. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link: http://listserv.uga.edu/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?SUBED1=conch-l-L&A=1 Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and click leave the list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------