Dear Leslie,

Harry still maintains his extraordinary memory. The known distribution of Epitonium championi is from the south coast of Cape Cod. Massachusetts to Duval Co. NE Florida. The similar species, Epitonium leali, is known from Puerto Rico to east Florida, west Florida, Louisiana and Texas.This species is shown in Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells (Tunnell et al, 2010:193) as E. turritellula (Mörch, 1875).

Emilio

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From: Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:00:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Epitonium championi

Dear Leslie,

Do you know the recent (still less than a year old) work by Emilio
Garcia on refining the identity of this nominal taxon? See
<http://shellmuseum.org/shells/shelldetails.cfm?id=65>.

I've lost my .pdf (and all else pre- 26 June), but, if I recall
correctly, Epitonium leali Garcia, 2011 replaces E. championi in the
Gulf of Mexico.

Harry

Garcia, E.F., 2011. Two new species of  Epitonium (Gastropoda:
Epitoniidae) from the western Atlantic. Novapex 12(3-4): 99-107. 10 October.


At 04:25 PM 9/29/2012, you wrote:
>Hello gang,
>
>Greetings, I am looking for a couple specimens of Epitonium championi.
>
>Please contact me privately if you have some available of know where
>I may go to attain some.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Leslie Crnkovic
>713-598-7084
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