Hi, Carole!
 
Would you happen to know, right off hand, where the holotype of Iredale's
evecta might be housed?
 
Kim
 
P.S. 'Ditto' on the use of common names.
 
 
Carole P. Marshall wrote:
>
> In a message dated 98-08-04 13:38:24 EDT, you write:
>
> > Semipallium vexillium (Reeve,1853)
> >Chlamys (Chlamys) rubida (Hinds,1845)    acc to A.Rombauts 'Guidebook to
> >Pecten Shells'.
>
> Stanley, Nancy & all,
>    I am sorry to say that Rombouts assignation of vexillum to Semipallium was
> in error. It was not his error, but Grau's and then Hertlein's.(per Waller,
> 1972) The Semipallium's have a distinct shagreen microsculpture, while the
> Bractechlamys do not and vexillum definately does not have shagreen
> microsculpture. The correct genus is Bractechlamys Nancy, I was wrong when I
> told you Comptopallium, although it was placed there as well as in
> Bractechlamys, but Bractechlamys  is correct. Bractechlamys evecta Iredale,
> 1939, which is a jr. synonym for vexillum Reeve, was the type for the genus
> Bractechlamys. That is probably as clear as mud, but at any rate put the
> species vexillum in the genus Bractechlamys. :-)
>
>                        Carole Marshall
>
> P.S. Stanley, you are right when you said  the latin name can cause enough
> controversy and genera are a nightmare. Waller in 1972 placed vexillum in
> Comptopallium and then in 1989 placed it in Bractechlamys but still
> Semipallium's have shagreen.
>             C