Dear Tom,

Maybe I can send you 2 specimens of Smaragdia viridis from the
Mediterranean. They are not very good, but shows all the characteristics.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck


Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
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url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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Jr,

According to the Kaicher card set on Neritidae, it is both.  Smaragdia
viridis (Linnaeus, 1758) is from the Mediterranean and has scattered white
blotches on green, an incurved, dentate columellar lip, and grows to about
8mm.  Smaragdia viridimaris (Maury, 1917) is from S.E. Florida and the
Caribbean, has white blotches but also a white band bordering the columellar
shield, a whitish operc, and grows to 6mm.  Unfortunately I cannot confirm
the differences as I do not have the Mediterranean species and my Caribbean
specimens are very rough beach collected.  The other two small green
Smaragdia I know of are the S. rangiana (Recluz, 1841) from the Philippines
and S. feuilletii (Issel) from the Red Sea.  The Smaragdia exalbida
(Dillwyn) from Argentina and Smaragdia souverbiana (Montrouzler, 1863) from
the Philippines are both unknowns to me.

So if any dealers have any Smaragdia to sell or shellers have any to trade,
please give me a ring as Bruce Neville and I are slowly trying to get
together the Neritidae to come up with a color guide to identification.

Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA