José,

I heartily applaud your efforts to put a comprehensive set of images and
descriptions on the web, especially since you'll be including the micros!

I noticed that there are identical Fasciolaria tulipa images for that name
and F. lilium hunteria. (I know that you can get bleary-eyed from detail
work and miss something obvious in editing).

Thanks for your good work,

David Kirsh
Durham, NC

> From: Jose H Leal <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:57:35 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Sanibel Shells
>
> Dear Conch-Lers,
>
> I am glad to announce that we just uploaded the one-hundredth species onto
> the "Seashells of Sanibel and Captiva" section of the Shell Museum Web
> site. As you can easily check by hitting
> www.shellmuseum.org/sanibel_shells.html, each entry includes more than one
> view as well as brief information such as family name, maximum size
> locally, and the common name adopted by the American Fisheries
> Society/American Malacological Society for that species. Enjoy the images;
> comments and suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> We illustrate only specimens from Sanibel, Captiva, and neighboring shallow
> water areas; there are no pictures of "better-looking" specimens of the
> locally occurring species from other areas to enhance the looks of the
> project (e.g., the local sunrise tellins may look pale in comparison to
> specimens from the Florida Keys). In a nutshell (!), what you see is what
> can (or could) be collected in our part of mother ocean. In addition, I am
> choosing to illustrate only species represented in the Shell Museum
> collection by more than one lot. The goal is to offer images of around 300
> shallow-water species (including micromollusks) by the end of 2003, and
> later to include brief descriptions with them (these are almost all ready).
> The results could also be published as a field guide to the mollusks of
> Southwest Florida, but that is contingent on acquisition of financial
> support, etc.
>
> I want to thank the Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club for lending financial and
> moral support to this effort in particular and to the Research and
> Collection Department of the Museum in general; we just received a research
> grant from SCSC to purchase a Nikon D100 reflex digital camera and
> accessories (6.1 megapixel resolution and innumerable other perks!)
> Needless to say, it's been hard for Museum staff to get me away from the
> photo room to tend to administrative chores these last few days.
>
> Happy Holidays,
>
> José
>
> José H. Leal, Ph.D.
> Director, The Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum
> Editor, THE NAUTILUS
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