Thanks, Jim.
Yes, I am interested. But I need to know costs if you are offering to sell your copy. The school has a collection of landsnail shells of which quite a few are Cuban, but only about a dozen shell species are (apparently) Urocoptidae. I'm a volunteer amateur shell collector trying to get this mess identified and organized.
The donor died in 1964 and when the shells were moved from his home in Massachussetts in 1966, the movers separated labels from the shells despite being told not to do so. As a result, some labels were lost. I believe the collector self-collected his Urocoptis shells but wasn't able to identify the species.
Add to that the fact that in some boxes several species were combined together with just a genus and (sometimes) a general location, and you get an idea of how difficult this is. Our hope is to make the collection of use as a teaching tool for local schools, and have a nice display.
We intend to photograph the collection (total of about 40,000 to 60,000 shells including marine and fresh water) and put this data up on the internet. But I want to be as accurate as possible before we begin that step. Arizona State University has no Marine Biology or related courses, and as a result, the budget is so small for this project that I'm struggling to get materials that could be of use..
Thanks,
Dale Snyder
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Dale, I have a copy if you're interested. My email is [log in to unmask] Jim Jensen
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>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Torrecoptis polita - Who published it and when?
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>Thank you for clearing that up for me. I'll check libraries in hope that some copies of the book found their way to libraries.
>
>Dale Snyder
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>Hi Dale,
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>Torrecoptis polita was described in "Los Moluscos Terrestres Cubanos
>de la Familia Urocoptidae" a manuscript that laid unpublished from
>the 1943, but finally went to press in 2008 through the efforts of
>Carolina de la Torre Molina. So 2008 is the actual publication
>date. It has over 700 pages and all of the species are
>illustrated. There are many newly described species included.
>
>For those who do not have this scarce out-of-print publication, do an
>on-line search. It is the holy grail for Cuban Urocoptidae. I found
>a copy offered for sale in a small Cuban book store in South Florida.
>
>Rich
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>At 10:03 PM 4/29/2013, you wrote:
>>I have found a confusion of names and dates for this little Cuban land snail.
>>Femorale notes Torre & Bartsch 1972
>>Bagni Liggia says Jaume & Torre 1975
>>biologi.uni-ulm... noted J & T 1972,
>>and Wikipedia, Gwannon.com, and others all say T & B 2008
>>
>>Which authors and date would be the most appropriate?
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