Tom

I may have some of these preserved in glycol.  Will have to look and see and take photos.
Please contact me offline.

When I received them I was told to ID them from the a paper in-press by pretty-much the same authors.
That was about 2000.  Local was hydro-thermal vents off Marianas.
This is all off the top of my head, so I'll have to look it all up.

Les Crnkovic
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I am doing a little research on a Pacific deep water limpet - probably for an eventual shell show exhibit. The name is Pyropelta musaica, McLean, J.H. and Haszpurunar, G., 1987 (although I have found references to Pyropelta musica, McLean, J.H. & M.G. Harasewych, 1987 also, but I think that is incorrect). I believe the original description on this relatively new species was published in the  article  "Pyropeltidae, a new family of Cocculiniform limpets from hydrothermal vents", McLean, J. H. and Haszpurunar, G. 1987, published in the Veliger, 30(2), 196-205. I have found a black and white photo of the animal and shell online, and also found documentation that states that the holotype (and paratypes) are in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Does anyone have that Veliger article that can get me a copy? Can someone point me towards a color photo of the animal/shell? Does anyone have this shell for sale? Or that can I borrow to make a color photograph?
Thanks for any help.
Tom

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