Timothy,
please  send me off list a picture of your specimen in question.
Ed Heiman
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From: "Timothy Blackwood" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:24 AM
Subject: Question concerning Zoila friendii vercoi Schilder, 1930.


> Hello,
>
>     I have a question for the Cypraeidae experts out there.  In my
> collection, I have the
> following specimen (with data from original label):
>
>     Zoila friendii deep water form
>     Gray 1831
>     Cervantes Island, Western Australia
>     Found by diver at 20 metres on sponge
>     83mm
>
> I've compared it with the following typical specimen (with data from
> original label):
>
>     Zoila friendii Gray 1831
>     Garden Island, South Western Australia
>     By diver, on sponge, at 20 meters.
>     79mm
>
> The specimen from Cervantes Island is much more inflated in appearance
> than the typical the Garden
> Island specimen.  Furthermore the Cervantes Island shell has a bluish
> dorsum with overlying
> brownish spotting, the margins are lighter in color (edged with dark
> brown) and noticeably
> spotted.  The anterior canal is less rostrated than in the Garden Island
> shell.  The base of the
> shell is brown with light tan near the margin and extremities.
>     I see from maps that Cervantes Island is farther to the north than
> Garden Island.  My
> questions are as follows:
>
> 1. Do the known ranges of Z. friendii friendii and Z. friendii vercoi
> overlap?
> 2. If so, by how much?
> 3. Do Z. friendii friendii and Z. friendii vercoi occupy the same habitat
> within the same range?
> 4. My Cervantes Island specimen seems to fit the criteria for vercoi as
> listed in Lorenz and
>   Hubert.  Could my Cervantes Island specimen be a vercoi?
>
> Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance
> and I'll look forward to
> hearing from you soon. :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Tim Blackwood
>
> Timothy J. Blackwood
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