Sacred chank revisited

摘要

After the article by Jesse Todd that mentioned and illustrated Turbine/la pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758), the sacred chank (Conch Shells on Coins and Their Use) in the March 2011 American Conchologist (vol. 39, no. 1), we had a follow-up by Harry Lee (Historical notes on a sinistral sacred chank - Turbinella pyrum) in the June 2011 issue of America Conchologist (vol. no. 2). Luckily, Kenneth D. Rose, a professor at the Centerr Functional Anatomy & Evolution, Johns Hopkins University hool of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, saw these articles and ecided to respond with a few notes and photographs of his sacred ehank.