Date:         Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:26:23 -0400
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From:         "Harry G. Lee" <shells@HGLEE.COM>
Subject:      Re: sinistral whelk nomenclature
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Andrew et al.,

I'd hate to think that this stranding was 
consequent to of shipwreck and/or ballast jettison.

Linnaeus (1758: sp. 485) cited two figures. The 
one in d'Argenville (in my Favanne (edition it is 
pl. 23 fig. h) is clearly the "sinistrum" morph. 
The holotype from the Linnaean Collection figured 
by Hollister (1958: pl. 12 fig. 1, 2) is clearly 
the "perversum" (Yucatan) morph. It appears the 
Great Master couldn't distinguish the two at the species level.

Prescience? (You can take that homograph either way)

Harry

d'Argenville, A. J. D. [Favanne, J. de and J. G. 
de Favanne], 1780. La conchyliologie ou histoire 
naturelle des coquilles de mer, d'eau douce, 
terrestres et fossile; avec une traité de la 
zoomorphose, ou représentation des animaux qui 
les habitent: ouvrage dans lequel on trouve une 
nouvelle méthode de les diviser. Troisième 
édition. De Bure, Paris. vol. 1: frontispiece + 
i-iv + [i] + ai-aiii + i-iv, plate, ix-lx + 
1-878; vol. 2: frontispiece + 1-848.; vol. 3: frontispiece + pls. 1-80.

Hollister, Solomon C. 1958. A review of the genus 
Busycon and its allies, Pt. 1, Palaeontographica Americana 4(28): 1-126.

Linnaeus, C., 1758. Systema naturae per regna 
tria naturae... editio decima, reformata. Vol 1. 
Regnum animale tenth edition. Stockholm. pp. 
1-823 + i. [original work not seen; reprinted in 
facsimile by the British Museum of Natural 
History, London,1956 (+ v)]. Available on the 
world-wide web at 
<<http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search/references>http://www.animalbase.unigoettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search/references  
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At 05:41 AM 9/4/2007, you wrote:
>>To add a little weight to Andrew's unitarian 
>>Busycon (s. s.) hypothesis below, John 
>>Timmerman has found dozens of empty shells of a 
>>sinistral whelk indistinguishable from strict 
>>typological Yucatan B. perversum. Note that 
>>John was collecting on Shackleford (also 
>>spelled Shackelford) Banks, North Carolina!
>
>Aha! I was waiting to hear something like that.

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