Classically, genera were defined solely on the basis of conchological and sometimes radular
charactaristics as well.  However, with the advent of genetical analysis, it seems inevitable that
some genera and other "higher order" taxa will be spit up, modified, or even defined at least partly
on the basis of this type of analysis.
  My question is: has this started to occur already (example(s)?), and if it does, how is the
chonchologist without access to such advanced equipment to "corectly" assign new species to genera??
Curious in Canada,
Ross M.
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