Biasioli names Jamaica for both shells as locality.
Helmut

 --- Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Dear George
>
> The name of the Cistula species in the museums
> collection from the old Biasioli collection before
> 1900 are pallida and radula. I eventually want to
> know the right genus and author and family.
> Could I have more informations of these two species
> thank you best in advance and with best shelling
> greetings.
> Helmut from Innsbruck
>
> --- George Watters
> <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
> Cistula has a painful taxonomic history, having been
> > proposed in a rejected
> > work but picked up by several later workers,
> notably
> > Swainson and Gray. All
> > of these uses were believed to be junior synonyms
> of
> > Cistula "Say" Gray,
> > 1825, a genus of turtles. Gray actually introduced
> > it three times. However,
> > Gray goofed. Say's name was actually spelled
> > Cistuda, not Cistula, and the
> > misspelling does not enter into the competition.
> The
> > concept of Cistula has
> > changed over time, from "Annularia" to,
> > mysteriously, just about any high
> > spired annularine or rhytidopomine. Most species
> > subsequently added to
> > Cistula are actually in Parachondria. The original
> > species in the genus
> > were members of Choanopoma.
> >
> > Cistulops is a monotypic genus for C. raveni
> > (Crosse, 1872) from Curacao.
> > Cistulops (a chondropomine) has nothing to do with
> > Cistula (an annularine,
> > as a synonym of the Jamaican Choanopoma or
> > "Annularia.") In my
> > someday-to-be-published catalog of the
> Annulariidae
> > (= Chondropomatidae), I
> > do not recognize any species as Cistula.
> >
> >
> > >Dear Conchlers,
> > >
> > >should be Cistula and Cistulops the same genera
> and
> > >do they belong to the same family, to
> > >Chondropomatidae.
> > >with best shelling greetings
> > >Helmut
> > >
> > >=====
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> > >A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria
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> > >
> >
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> Helmut Nisters
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> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria
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> web: www.netwing.at/nisters
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