For Respondents with COA:  That's good advice on Harpa to use Eddie
Hardy's Thumbnails page (at
http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/TN_Family_HARPIDAE_HARPINAE.shtml)
.  But go to the Harpa articularis site at
http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_123.shtml, and you find that 1 of
those five (no. 4) is Harpa harpa.  Also no. 3 is probably Harpa major,
not Harpa articularis; it's hard to tell but look at that glaze on the
spire that differs from those two H. articularis above it and looks more
like H. major or H. davidus.

I assume these designations come from the originator of the ID and are
not changed.  Like others I deeply appreciate Eddie's work, but would
like to see editing of that (at least with no. 4, if not no. 3).  That
could be a worthy COA community job and less work for Eddie alone.

Russell Renka

Russell D. Renka
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-----Original Message-----
From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Richard Parker
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 2:14 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Harpidae Questions II

You may find a bit of help at Eddy Hardy's site at:
http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/TN_Family_HARPIDAE_HARPINAE.shtml

(I am an expert in discovering new species and forms of Harpidae - so
far,
none of my major discoveries has held up to close scrutiny).

best regards

Richard Parker
Siargao Island, Philippines

http://richard-smalliislandnotessuccessor.blogspot.com
www.coconutstudio.com
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