On Thursday, March 11, 1999 at 6:05:50 pm VUT,
"Erick Staal" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>Concerning Scutus I know of at least one species which lives on the East
>Coast of Africa. I collected it in Zanzibar. And if I remember well there is
a picture
>of this Scutus in Drivas & Jay, Coquillages de les Iles Maurice et de
Reunion.
 
 
Thanks, Erick.  It certainly doesn't look as if Scutus is cosmopolitan - all
records (including yours) put the genus well and truly in the Indo-West
Pacific region.  Maybe the reference to a much wider distribution includes
fossil material.
 
Bronwen
Melbourne, Australia