Wednesday   June 7, 2000    07:05 PM

Dear Friends,

Many thanks for your helpful answers about the
olives from Peanut Island.

I've just received my copy of the wonderful
Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine
Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan by Higo, Callomon
& Goto (1999). (Really a great work Paul, but we are
waiting for the plates!!)

I was a bit surprise seeing with the n.G3097 Oliva scripta
Lamarck, 1811. Along many years buying and trading olives
I received all my scripta only from Caribbean region.
Only three times I saw in some dealers' lists O.scripta from
Thailand but each time I received Oliva hirasei Kira, 1959 with
a more or less flat spire.

Zeigler & Porreca (1969) wrote that O.scripta (which they
consider a species from Ceylon to New Caledonia) is very
similar to O.caribaeensis Dall & Simpson, 1901 which occurs
in West Indies. The strange fact is that Petuch & Sargent (1986)
(we know they are splitters) consider O.carbaeensis synonym
of O.scripta and put it into a new subgenus called Cariboliva !!

Does anyone have direct experience about O.scripta from
Indian or Pacific Ocean ? Or is this only another mystery
in the olives' world ?

Kindest regards to all from a very hot Italy.

Maurizio.
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