Dear Tom,
Thanks for the acknowledgement.  I love those little guys.  If anyone has
nerites (marine or otherwise) they can't hang names on, just let me know.
There are quite a few very poorly known endemics in the Indo-Pacific.  You
have to go back to Martini-Chemnitz to get decent coverage.  They are not
as bad as they appear to be sometimes and not so easy as they appear
sometimes either.  A monograph would be nice.  Hey, I'm not doing anything
next week.
 
Kurt
 
 
 
 
At 10:05 AM 9/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> Kurt,
>
>Thanks for the clarification on our confusing east coast nerite complex.
There
>are undoubtedly quite a few of us who have been confused by these guys.  I
know
>I have received at least three different species all under the N. zebra logo.
>The latest was just this last week in a shell store on the west coast.  I
bought
>what was labeled as N. zebra but they were actually N. turrita (which was
what I
>wanted because my specimen all had worn spires).  In this case the
confusion was
>so great they mixed up the oceans involved!!
>
>I printed your e-mail and it will remain stuck between the nerite pages in my
>favorite shell book.  Now I need to go look for a few of those guys as I had
>assumed many were synonyms.
>
>Again thanks,
>
>Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
>