Henk & Zvia Mienis
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Gunasena de Silva,
Sri Lanka




At 06:59 25/08/00 +0300, you wrote:
>There are several possibilities:
>Deshayes described some new species of Red Sea shells in a general book
>dealing with a journey in that area of which Laborde was the author,
>therefore all the mollusc taxa are quoted like the following example:
>Cardites rufa (Deshayes in Laborde, 1834).
>Sometimes an article is co-authored by two or more authors, but some of the
>new names are "claimed" by one of the authors only for example: Arca
>(Scapharca) birleyana Melvill in Melvill and Standen, 1906, while several
>pages further Pectunculus (now Glycymeris) heroicus Mellvil & Standen, 1906
>is described.
>However, it becomes rather complicated when you have to quote: Siliquaria
>armata Kuroda, Habe & Kosuge in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 or Nodiscala
>gracilis Masahito, Kuroda & Habe in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971.
>Yes, there are also general travel accounts in which not only molluscs but
>also other animals and plants are described, often by different authors. An
>example forms the description of Cerithium levantinum by E.A. Smith in Hart,
>1891.
>Live is not always easy.
>Best regards,
>Henk K. Mienis
>Curator National Mollusc Collection
>Dept. Evolution, Systematics & Ecology
>Hebrew University of Jerusalem
>Il-91904 Jerusalem, Israel
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Linda Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 4:56 AM
>Subject: A questionabout authors
>
>
>> Hi, Conch-Lers!
>>      I have a question.  Sometimes the author of a shell name is given as
>(Name in Another Name, Date).   Do most of these indicate the description of
>a shell in a book of shell descriptions by another auther(s)?  Or, do some
>of these come from publications that may iinclude phyla other than Mollusca
>as well?  (Some of these are obviously limited to Mollusca, as both names
>are familiar to us as shell authors.)   I"m just wondering if there are some
>cases in which the work deals with other animals as well as molluscs.
>>
>> Greetings from stormy St. Louis,
>> Linda
>