A great article / chapter including a good number of elegant line drawings
of live-collected ranellid larvae and larval shells was published by Laursen
in 1981. A quick search for possible versions of the chapter online did not
yield good results, but I could be proven wrong.

Laursen, D. 1981. Taxonomy and distribution of teleplanic larvae in the
North Atlantic. Dana-Report 89: 1-43.

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Harry G. Lee
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] ID help

Definitely not, but I can't say that this is a diagnostic character
at the species level. The early teleoconch seems to be the clincher
in this instance.

Harry


At 03:25 PM 4/26/2010, you wrote:
>Wow!  Do all cymatiums have that tilted protoconch?
>Thanks!
>Karlynn
>NC - USA
>
>Harry G. Lee wrote:
>>Dear Karlynn,
>>
>>The first one bears an uncanny resemblance to left-hand shell at <
>>http://www.jaxshells.org/prom.htm>.
>>
>>Harry
>>
>>
>>At 10:45 AM 4/26/2010, you wrote:
>>>A friend has sent me some photos requesting identification help from
>>>Conch-L.  These shells were all collected in the Bahamas from
>>>Eleuthera or the Abacos.  I quickly edited these photos and the
>>>colors are not exactly true, but close, and we have a few tentative
>>>identifications.  Any help you can give us will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>http://home.earthlink.net/~karlynnmorgan/unidentifiedshells/
>>><http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ekarlynnmorgan/unidentifiedshells/>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Karlynn
>>>NC - USA
>
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