Is it thirteen or thirtyone. Anyone heard of  Cypraea dislexia?lol
Gary


--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Eduard Heiman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Eduard Heiman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Cypraea mantellum (part 2)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 1:22 PM
> Dear Fabio,
> it seems to me that in "An Atlas of cowrie
> radulae" by Bradner & Kay, 1996
> only  13 (not 31) patterns are mentioned and these patterns
> "are remarkably
> consistent with M. Schilder and F. Schilder's (1971)
> generic arrangements of
> the cowries."
> Best regards
> Ed
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabio Moretzsohn"
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> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Cypraea mantellum (part 2)
>
>
> > (I tried to send the second part of my message 3 days
> ago, but
> > apparently it bounced again. It seems that
> Conch-L's server counts all
> > formatting tags as part of the message, making it
> longer than what you
> > see in HTML email. Here is my last trial, in plain
> text, without
> > formatting. I apologize to those who received it
> repeatedly)
> >
> > (continuation from previous message)
> >
> > In the meantime, Pat Burgess, following Kay's
> advice, described
> > several new cowries, including renaming a few, like
> Pustularia
> > (Annepona) mariae Schilder, 1927, which under the
> single genus scheme
> > was preoccupied by a previously named cowrie, Cypraea
> camelopardalis
> > var. mariae Schilder, 1924. The replacement name was
> Cypraea mantellum
> > Walls and Burgess, 1980. See Biraghi 1981, Rosenberg
> 1997 for more
> > detail
> >
> (http://www.conchologistsofamerica.org/articles/y1997/9709_rosenberg.asp).
> > As Rosenberg pointed out, the name Cypraea mariae
> should not be used.
> > If you accept a single genus, then the name should be
> Cypraea
> > mantellum Walls and Burgess, 1980; if you accept
> several genera, then
> > the correct name is Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927).
> >
> > The ICZN has no jurisdiction about the use of a single
> genus or
> > multiple genera in the Cypraeidae (or Conidae, or any
> family), so
> > there is no right or wrong, it is a matter of personal
> choice. Some
> > collectors prefer to keep all of their cowries
> arranged in a single
> > genus; most researchers now prefer to use multiple
> genera, because
> > species within each genus are more closely related to
> each other than
> > to species in other genera, so it makes communication
> easier.
> > Alternatively, you could use Cypraea for all species
> and the different
> > genera as subgenera.
> >
> > Given the increasing amount of information available
> in the last 50
> > years since Kay (1957b) proposed returning to the use
> of a single
> > genus, we now know a lot more about relationships in
> the cowries, so
> > even Bradner and Kay (1996) recognized 31
> "patterns" of cowrie radular
> > (in their atlas of cowrie radulae), which are
> remarkably similar to
> > the systematic arrangement of Schilder and Schilder
> (1971). The
> > molecular work by Chris Meyer (2003, 2004) is probably
> the most solid
> > work in the Cypraeidae, and his molecular data DOES
> support most
> > genera previously defined by conchological and
> anatomical data.
> >
> > My two cents.
> >
> > Fabio
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > Biraghi, G. 1981. Where is Linnaeus? We need him now!
> Hawaiian Shell
> > News 29(12): 3.
> >
> > Bradner, H. and E. A. Kay. 1996. An atlas of cowrie
> radulae (Mollusca:
> > Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea: Cypraeidae). The Festivus 28:
> 1–179.
> >
> > Kay, E.A. 1957a. The systematics of the Cypraeidae as
> elucidated by a
> > study of Cypraea caputserpentis and related forms.
> Ph.D. dissertation,
> > University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.
> >
> > Kay, E.A. 1957b. The genus Cypraea. Nature 180:
> 1436-1437.
> >
> > Kay, E.A. 1960. Generic revision of the Cypraeinae.
> Proceedings of the
> > Malacological Society of London 33: 278-287.
> >
> > Meyer, C. P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries
> (Gastropoda:
> > Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the
> tropics. Biological
> > Journal of the Linnean Society 79(3): 401–459.
> >
> > Meyer, C. P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased
> molecular
> > sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic
> implications.
> > Malacologia 46(1): 127–156.
> >
> > Schilder, F.A. 1922. Contributions to the knowledge of
> the genera
> > Cypraea and Trivia. Proceedings of the Malacological
> Society of London
> > 15: 98-122.
> >
> > Schilder, M. and Schilder, F.A. 1971. A catalogue of
> living and fossil
> > cowries. Mémoires de Institut Royal des Ciences
> Naturelles de Belgique
> > (2éme Series) 85: 1-246.
> >
> > Steadman, W.R. and Cotton, B.C. 1946. A key to the
> classification of
> > the cowries (Cypraeidae). Records of the South
> Australian Museum 8:
> > 503-530 + 13 plates.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Fabio Moretzsohn, Ph.D.
> > Assistant Research Scientist
> > Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
> > Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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> > Phone: (361) 825-3230
> > Fax: (361) 825-2050
> > mollusca [at] gmail.com
> >
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