Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:39:11 +0100
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From: Roland Houart <roland.houart@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Muricidae ID help needed, please
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Hi Bruce,
Differences are others than columella. Other differences in these species
are the protoconch and the number of spines+their ontogeny.
I suggest you to order "A revision of the indo-West Pacific Fossil and
Recent Species of Murex s.s. and haustellum" by Ponder & Vokes, published in
the Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 8, 29 April 1988.
You can ask to:
Des Beechey
Malacology Department
Australian Museum
6 College St,
Sydney NSW 2010,
Australia
Phone/Fax: 61 (0)2 9320 6166
Email: desb@austmus.gov.au
It is Vokesimurex dolichourus.
Best wishes
Roland
2011/2/24 Bruce Lippincott <brucelippincott1@yahoo.com>
> Date:Feb. 24, 2011; 4:45AM
> From: Bruce Lippincott
> Subject: Muricidae help needed, please
>
> Hi Roland,
> Many thanks for your reply to my ID request. I'm starting to understand how
> variable C. torrefactus is! I had thought C. torrefactus was a shallow
> water
> species with a heavy shell, but
> now I see they can also grow in 50-100m. and have a thin shell like C.
> species 8. I'm Also learning about V. rectirostris which I thought could
> not
> get so large as 71 or 89mm. What do you look for when distinguishing
> between
> V. rectirostris and V. dolichorus[spelling?], or V. kiiensis,Kira,1959 and
> V. gallinago, Sowerby, 1903? Is the difference in a denticulate
> collemnella?
> Once again, thanks for your help.
> Bruce
>
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