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  • les
    Dec 7, 2019

    limpet from St. Vincent

    Discussion 
    Five feet deep, under a rock, 15 mm across. St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I'm stumped.
  • sharpphyl
    Sep 2, 2019

    Hawaiian micro

    Discussion 
    I pulled this shell out of grit collected at Turtle Beach, Oahu (21.617541; -158.086566). It looks most like very early stage Coralliophila fimbriata but I can't find any images of Coralliophila larval shells/protoconchs to compare it with. I also considered Phenacolepas but images I see of their protoconchs don't seem to match. I'm amazed at the change in shape from one stage to the next. The specimen is about 1-2 mm in diameter. Any help would be appreciated.
  • fales
    Sep 4, 2019

    Mysella planulata? (if not . . . what?)

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    Hull's Cove, Mt. Desert Island, Maine 44.41607, -68.24840 August 6, 2019 Undersides of rocks in ~2' water, ~30min after -0.7' low water Largest is ~4.5x2.5mm

Olsson, A. A. (1961). Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific, particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru). Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca. pg 419.

Mar 12, 2020.  Harry Lee comments:  "Considering the fact that the genus was introduced in a monograph treating the eastern Pacific fauna, it is somewhat ironic that presently (Huber, 2015: 288-289; 734-737; WoRMS, its six species live in the Indo-West Pacific as well as both sides of the Atlantic and not in the eastern Pacific (Panamic Province).

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Huber, M., 2015. Compendium of Bivalves 2. A Full-Color Guide to the Remaining Seven Families. A Systematic Listing of 8'500 Bivalve Species and 10'500 Synonyms. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany. 907 pp., incl. numerous color figs + CD-ROM. May."

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