At 01.36 28/1/99 Ross Mayhew wrote:
 
>     Glad to see micros  being discussesd on the list - they are some of my favorites.
 
        I agree fully with Ross on microshells, they are beautiful and very interesting because there are a lot of species still not discovered.
 
        Manzonia and Folinia are both Rissoidae. Manzonia is a genus of the subfamily Rissoinae with only a species (probably) in the Mediterranea (Manzonia crassa Kanmaker, 1798 type-species) but about 20 species in the Canary Isl. Folinia is a genus of subfamily Rissoininae (type-species Rissoina signae Bartsch, 1915 from Panama) with a distribution restricted to Central West America and Caribbean. For more information see Ponder (1985), A rewiew of the Genera of  the Rissoidae. Records of the Australian Museum, suppl. 4.
 
        Italo
 
 
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