Family Ovulidae/ Subfamily Eocypraeinae

Chris Brown
Tucson, AZ
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From: "Dan Yoshimoto" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: Jenneria pustulata


> To those of the "Cypraea persuasion",
>         Today I received another specimen of Jenneria pustulata
(Lightfoot,
> 1786), which caused me to check the family in which it belonged, before
> entering it into my database and making tags.  A few years ago I had
> entered it under Triviidae Eisenberg "Seashells of the World", pg. 59.
> Looking into Keen's "Seashells of Tropical West America (2nd edition) pg.
> 499, it is listed under Ovulidae.  So far we have a disagreement between 2
> authors, but to make it a bit more interesting,  Tucker Abbott and Peter
> Dance's "Compendium of Seashells",(2nd edition) pg. 98, places Jenneria
> pustulata in Triviidae, whereas their 4th edition places it in Ovulidae.
>         Can someone (Lindsey Groves?) please clarify what is the present
> (December 11, 2002, 11:28p.m.) family to which our devilish little species
> belongs?
>         Thanks to those that have helped with this problems.
> Dan
>
> Dan & Hiromi Yoshimoto
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