Dear Cecil and all:

I have been recently in North Chile and collected these shells.
I think your Fissurella is Fissurella maxima Sowerby 1835, you can contrast
your specimens with these pictures:

http://www.patagonianshells.com.ar/index.php?link=item&code=617
http://www.patagonianshells.com.ar/index.php?link=item&code=618
http://www.patagonianshells.com.ar/index.php?link=item&code=619
http://www.patagonianshells.com.ar/index.php?link=item&code=620

About the other shell, I think it is a Coralliophila, you can see similar
specimens in:

http://www.patagonianshells.com.ar/index.php?link=item&code=576

I haven't find any references of Coralliophila for north Chile, a region
belonging to the Peruvian Malacological Province. Nevertheless, I think our
specimens match well with Coralliophila scala (A. Adams 1854), described for
Juan Fernandez Ids. (off central Chile)
The type specimen of this species is pictured in Kosuge and Suzuki (1985)
"Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups - Familiy
Coralliophilidae", pl. 47, no. 9-10.
Other possibilities are: Coralliophila parva (E.A. Smith 1877) or C. nux
(Reeve 1846), as you can see in same book or in the Myra Keen "bible", but
that species occur in north Perú (south of Panamic Malacological Province).

For this species, an expert oppinion on Coralliophilidae group certainly
will be welcome...

Regards,
Andres R. Bonard
Buenos Aires
Argentina



>From: Cecil Bankston <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Identity of Shells from Chile
>Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 23:14:50 -0500
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>I have put on my Web page images of a muricid(?) and 2 groups of
>Fissurellas I collected in Chile.  I would appreciate assistance in
>identifying them.  The URL is:
>http://members.cox.net/cbankston/ShellImages.html
>
>I am having a real problem with the smaller fissurellas, as their
>patterns are so similar.  Some of my smaller specimens also could be
>juveniles of the larger species.
>--
>Cecil N. Bankston
>Baton Rouge, LA
>USA
>
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