Lindner wrote:
 
> Dears,
> who has informations about Pugilina (Hemifusus), please?
> ABBOTT & DANCE, Compendium of Seashells, 1982, p.176, shows in one picture two different shells with the names
> Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin 1791) and Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmeilin 1791).
>
 
Linder,
 
It will be interesting to see what people say about this.  I also have the two shells pictured in the Compendium
and I always assumed they were correctly identified (as did the collectors and then the dealers who handled them
before I got them).  I do know that many of the Hemifusus are extremely hard to tell apart form each other, but
this is the first I have heard of confusion over these two species.  So let us know what you hear.
 
Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA