Jose:

I am almost positive that at one time Petuch himself took Oliva zelindae
and placed it in the genus Conus.  It might have been in one of his fossil
publicaitons.  Petuch (as others) had a tendency sometimes within his
publications of making changes in nomenclature (names) just "out of the
blue" in places you would expect.  I'll take a look in my Petuch fossil
literature and see if I can find it.  Either that, or I am going crazy -
finally - too many drugs and diseases.

Paul


At 08:14 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Paul, James, et al.,
>
>Ed Petuch originally (9179) assigned "Oliva" zelindae to its own subgenus
>Plicoliva. Philippe Bouchet of the Paris Museum later received
>similar-looking animals from Takoradi, Ghana (West Africa). In a paper
>published in 1989 (or was it 1988, I am away from my office), he named new
>species Plicoliva ryalli, moved provisionally (based on radulae) P.
>zelindae and P. ryalli to the family Volutidae, under the then new
>subfamily Plicolivinae. In 1995, yours truly and Jerry Harawsewych
>published a little paper in the Bulletin of Marine Science describing the
>general morphology of the soft parts of P. zelindae from a specimen kindly
>sent from Brazil by the Coltro brothers, and confirming inclusion of this
>species in the Volutidae. Therefore, the volutid genus Plicoliva is
>currently known to include only two shallow-water species, one from eastern
>Brazil, another from Ghana. It is absent from the South and Middle Atlantic
>oceanic islands (those sitauted between Brazil and Africa).
>
>Happy shelling,
>
>Jose
>
>
>At 05:45 PM 8/4/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>James:
>>
>>Petuch originally described Oliva zelindae as an Olive and latter changed
>>the genus to Conus (it is a weird look shell).  I thought I same somewhere
>>recently that it is now classified in the Volutidae.  Maybe someone else is
>>more update.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>
>>At 04:58 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Dear Helmut, These are the species I suggest:
>>>
>>>Oliva baileyi Petuch, 1979 - Solomon Is.
>>>Oliva julieta Duclos, 1835 - W. Central America
>>>Oliva kaleontina Duclos, 1835 - W. Central America
>>>Oliva rubrolabiata H. Fischer, 1902 - New Hebrides (This species is
>>>getting rarer as I write).
>>>Oliva rufofulgurata Schepman, 1911 - Phillipines
>>>Oliva sayana citrina Johnson, 1911 - Florida
>>>Oliva zelindae Petuch, 1979 - Brasil
>>>
>>>That is the best I can do.
>>>
>>>- James
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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