Cape Sable, area not specified

Paul L. McGinty, July 1936 (The Nautilus 50:71): "At last, before our eyes stretched the sandy beach of Cape Sable! Those Cape Sable Liguus had waited a long time for us to come, but now, here we were. Camp was established on Middle Cape, for should the wind become too much for the canoe we could walk the six miles either way to the next cape, that is, Northwest or East Cape."
Paul and Thomas McGinty covered three hundred miles of southwestern Florida coastline in three weeks by canoe. For the full story, see
http://www.archive.org/stream/nautilus50amer/nautilus50amer_djvu.txt 


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Cape Sable, L. f. m. var. flamingoensis

Typical of most populations of flamingoensis in that the yellow-orange coloration, even at the sutures of young shells, is very faint. The shell at the top right is very unusual in that it has a yellow-orange peripheral line.
 

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Cape Sable, L. f. m. var. flamingoensis, albino

Some flamingoensis are actually genetically white. Very young snails without a trace of color have been observed. One of the most persistent misidentifications by early collectors was of flamingoensis (matecumbensis) as the white shell L. f. s. var. vacaensis. Most if not all records of vacaensis west of Little Madeira Bay Hammock are these misidentifications.


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Cape Sable,  L. f. s. var.
mitchelli, from Pilsbry 1899

This appears to be the southern record for the variety.
   

Edited 13 times by Lysiloma Jan 3 15 8:41 PM.