Moshe Erlendur Okon wrote:
>
> Shalom Emilio Jorge,
> I guess this is all part of the endless discussion between splitters and
> lumpers, but in Lorenz& Hubert's book on Cowries (1993) three recent species
> are mentioned (Umbilia armeniaca, capricornica - Lorenz 1989 and hesitata)
> as well as one geographical subspecies (Umbilia hesitata beddomei).  Umbilia
> hesitata (as well as U. h. beddomei) has a albionic form or variation:
> howelli.
Hello!

Shalom Moshe,

I guess I made my point. It is a lumper/splitter endless summer.
Felix, the inveterate splitter, does tone down the splitting to some
extent in his book. We'll see how he does in his new Cowrie book.

Does anyone know when it is coming out?

Later,

Emilio Jorge Power