Thanks...Andy...as always, thorough and extremely helpful...K
At 10:05 AM 10/1/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Right you are, Kurt.
>
>If you go to
>http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu
>and click on Identification Keys, then you can easily find the gastropod key
>from there, and it is available for public use (without the photos, alas).
>
>Our friend José Leal posted a couple of identification guides as pdf files
>on the Web:
>http://www.shellmuseum.org/BivalvesLeal.pdf
>http://www.shellmuseum.org/GastropodsLeal.pdf
>These include line drawings, which as we all know can be even better than
>photos for identification.
>
>For those who are starting out, I recommend R. T. Abbott's "Seashells of
>North America", an inexpensive Golden Field Guide intended for laymen. The
>descriptions are often differential (that is, they tell how to distinguish
>species from similar species) and the illustratios are paintings all done by
>one person, George F. Sandström, who deserves a lot of credit for the book's
>success. Abbott's other books are all useful, especially the monumental
>"American Seashells" (second edition), but they tend to be illustrated by
>photographs that are often too small and too fuzzy for me to tell whether a
>bivalve species has teeth, let alone what the teeth look like. I often wish
>that he had had access to a digital camera.
>
>Of course, the Golden Field Guide does not include any but the most common
>species, and focuses on species that can be collected on or near the shore.
>It also doesn't include all of the abundant small species (the omission of
>Mulinia lateralis being particularly odd), nor the larger species that are
>abundant locally (such as Agripoma texasiana, which commonly turns up on
>beaches on Dauphin Island, Alabama, and which Doug Shelton mentioned in a
>recent email).
>
>Speaking of Doug Shelton, he was good enough to post his list of Alabama
>molluscan species on the Web, courtesy of Deborah Wills, and I find this to
>be a very useful authority to point out the most likely possibilities for
>specimens that I collect:
>http://fly.hiwaay.net/~dwills/marine/alamarsp.html
>But this is a cooler shore than you'll find on the west coast of Florida,
>which probably has a much greater diversity of species.
>
>If you can find a copy, the following reference will be extremely useful, as
>it focuses on the area of interest:
>Perry, Louise M., and Schwengel, Jeanne S., 1955, Marine shells of the
>western coast of Florida: Ithaca, New York, Paleontological Research
>Institution, 318 p., 55 pl.
>This work is a revision of Perry's 1940 book, "the first serious attempt to
>monograph a small regional area south of the State of New York." The
>black-and-white photographs are relatively sharp and well reproduced, though
>they generally show only one side of a shell. The quality of descriptions
>ranges broadly but is often insightful. The language is technical but should
>not faze anyone with a good glossary at hand.
>
>I am among those who are interested in other guides to Gulf of Mexico
>species, and those from the Carolinian faunal province generally. Not just
>mollusks, either. I want plants, fungi, spiders, butterflies, crabs,
>barnacles! on the Web -- on paper -- in murals -- stained glass windows --
>more, more, I'm still not satisfied!
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Andrew K. Rindsberg
>Geological Survey of Alabama
>Yuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Kurt Auffenberg
>Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:19 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: assistance requested
>
>
>Ooops...Mr. McKenna's email is [log in to unmask]
>
>But copy me...maybe the entire list....I'm sure there are others that would
>like to see a key of Gulf coast shells....
>
>K
>
>At 09:59 AM 10/1/04 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear All:
> >
> >Does anyone know of any online identification keys out there for this
> >poor soul....(see below)......?
> >
> >"I teach HS bio in New York City. I am trying to use gastropod shells
> >I purchased in Tarpon Springs for practicing keys with a senior class.
> >I found a site
> >(http://eusmilia.geology.uiowa.edu/cgi-bin/flgastro/polyclav?../pollycl
> >ave/flga)that
> >features images and data for keying gulf coast gastropods for the
> >Tampa Bay region (almost perfect!). Unfortunately, I cannot access the
> >site. Do you have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks for your time."
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Kurtles
> >
> >
> >Mr. Kurt Auffenberg
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