The January, 2001 issue of Internet Hawaiian Shell News is now on line.

There is an auction of a recent find article:  Distorsio burgessi:

It contains in the Features section::
A continuation of Chang's Turrids of Taiwan, part 18, reviewing Chang's
classification of turrids including a table of all turrids to subgenus
level in a format similar to Vaught's;

The start of a new series on Mitridae by Wesley Thorsson & Richard
Salisbury with an Introduction to the Living Mitridae, a series which
will eventually be a CD-ROM book;

A reprint of parts 5 & 6 of Mollusca from the Line Islands by Harold
Jewell from the April and June , 1961 issues of Hawaiian Shell News;

Announcement of 2001 Hawaiian Malacological Society grants for
Malacological research by college/university students;

An Obituary for Tetta Richert.

Ethnography of Shell Dealers on Oahu, Hawaii

In the Month Section there will be.
Chapter 1, of The Living Mitridae: Mitra (Mitra) part 1 with grouping of
species by animal characteristics.

Summaries of CONCH-L thread on Periostracum.

Thanks to all contributors. And
To ALL, Happy New Year

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