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I need help - luigi_67 - 05-15-2008
Hello friends:
Yesterday i went to a beutiful beach in Quintana Roo Mexico its name is Mahahual and I founded this beutiful columbellidae, the colour is incredible and the line in the top of the shell I thinh is unique.
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the second one I founded a year ago in a mud cole to the gulf of mexico in yucatan, I know is a mellongellidae but the colour and the wide of the shell is different to the atlantic crown conch
I need help - dave r - 05-16-2008
Hi Luigi,where is Quintana Roo, Caribbean or Pacific? The second shell is the West Indian Crown Conch, <i>Melongena melongena</i> (Linne 1758)Melongenidae. It is found throughout most of the Caribbean and brackish, muddy water would be just the place to find one.
Dave
I need help - luigi_67 - 05-16-2008
Quintana Roo is in the mexican Caribbean, thanks
I need help - dave r - 05-16-2008
I agree with Paul.
I need help - paul monfils - 05-16-2008
I think the orange shell may be a juvenile Columbella mercatoria (linne, 1758).