> To all who collect NE Pacific (NW U.S. and Western Canada) mollusks. In the
> current issue of The Veliger - 46(1): 77-85 (January 7, 2003), Peter B. Marko,
> A. Richard Palmer and Geerat J. Vermeij have authored an article :
> Resurrection of Nucella ostrina (Gould, 1852), Lectotype Designation for  N.
> emarginata (Deshayes, 1839), and Molecular Genetic Evidence of Pleistocene
> Speciation. This article seperates what we all have been calling N. emarginata
> into two species, the original N. emarginata  is now confined to the southern
> coast and N. ostrina is found in the northern area.

southern coast of what, Tom? Washington? Alaska? California?

Peggy
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