Dear Paul and David;- As you may have noted, I only have questions---not answers. It appears to me, however, that DNA studies are a lot like Early TV or ball-point pens. (remember the Parker 21, so named because that's what it cost). Similarly, the computer I use is the grandson of one that took up two walls and a cabinet a few years ago. I wonder if more work on the process of DNA studies might not bring it into more common usage and more practical pricing. I can envision a time when you have a little box about TV size. It has a door where you slip in a whole mollusk (with or without shell). The machine hums and clicks, then spits out a nice 20 inch tape with all the information done in numbers. I know, and so do you, what this process would do for "new" Conus species. Among the Epitiniidae, we'd like to find out whether our notable look-a-likes, zelandica from NZ and blainei from Florida, are the same or just accidently similar. Your humble Question Man