In addition to that,
It is very usefull to compare your shells with shells already
labeled by others (if you can compare to type material even
better!!). If still you canīt take them apart... well, maybe
they can (or should) not be sorted, and thus you can propose
that species A and B are the same thing.
regards
Fabio Wiggers
now working on Adelomelon
--- Eduard <[log in to unmask]> escreveu: > Dear Oliver
> You found at the mentioned web site a short note in which
> Raybaudi proposed a new name for an Indian populations
> belonging to the Erronea onyx group. This is not a formal
> description of a new cowry taxon (in this case a subspecies)
> and one really can not learn from this short note what are
> diagnostic characters of a new taxon and how it differs from
> other taxa of the species.
> If you want to define the taxonomic identity of shells in your
> collection you can read other available cowry manuals and come
> to a decision. This always will be YOUR responsibility of
> diagnosing and labelling shells in your collection and as with
> other cases of diagnosing it is good to hear a second (and
> even third) opinion. Good luck.
> Eduard Heiman
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