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Bruce[_28_]

In article >,
says...
>
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:25:04 -0500, Sqwertz >
> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 03:13:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >> You know, if one of you Dungeness partisans could come up with the
> >> actual genus and species of the two crabs under discussion, we could
> >> perhaps agree that they're different crabs with the same common name.
> >
> >Unlike American/Pacific sole vs Dover sole, it's pretty cut & dried
> >what a dungeness is and that there no other crabs sharing that name.
> >The binomial name is irrelevant here (but I'll show her mine if she
> >shows me hers!).
> >
> >-sw
>
> Perhaps these actually came from the Kentish coast where Dungeness is,
> I really don't know. However they were very large and when I saw the
> ad for NW Dungeness crab that I could have ordered, it sure looked
> like the one I am familiar with.

I guess this is as close as you can come to saying you were wrong.