Dear Henk,
Thank you for your information regarding my
questions on Gomphina.  It has been quite
helpful.

All the best from Korea,
Ron



On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:30:30 +0200, mienis
wrote:








Dear Ron and other Conch-Lers,

Here are only some remarks concerning the
question you have posted on the list.

Gomphina
semicancellata:
The correct author is Koch in Philippi,
1843. The three volumes of the work by
Philippi ("Abbildungen und
Beschreibungen....") contains a large number
of descriptions of new species by
other authors. Koch is one of them, he
supplied the original description of
semicancellata.

Fischer-Piette & Metivier,
1971
According to Fischer & Metivier, 1971:
70. [Revision des Tapetinae (Mollusques
Bivalves). Memoires du Museum
National d'Histoire Naturelle, NS (Serie A,
Zool.): 1-106, plts.
1-16.]
Gomphina semicancellata  is a junior
synonym of Gomphina aequilatera (Sowerby,
1825) (originally described as a
Donax).

Although Gomphina neastartoides (Yokoyama,
1922) is listed is an independant species,
they leave it to Japanese
malacologists to decide whether it is really
a good species, because they could
not study enough material of the latter
species.

Best regards,

Henk K. Mienis


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