Not too much at all.  Oliva has been one of my favorites and is one of the two world wide groups
I've collected (Harps the other).  I've got several trays of reticularis and been disturbed about
the "splitting" of what appeared to me to be simply a quite variable species.  Next, I'll stop by
the library today and attempt to obtain a copy of  Tursch et al, 1998 (Apex v 13 no 1-2).
 
Thanks again for the effort to present so informative a piece.
 
Marlo
Florida
 
Paul Drez wrote:
 
> At 07:54 PM 3/24/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Paul,  Thank you for a wonderful piece.  Are Florida Oliva included in
> your "only three species in
> >the Caribbean" position?  Where do you place sayana and Petuch's thesis
> that "bifasciata" reins in
> >Florida and reticularis elsewhere?
>
> Marlo:
>
> With the merging of Oliva "reticularis group" and Oliva fulgurator together
> into the Oliva "fulgurator-reticularis" group Tursch et al have reduced my
> three species in the Caribbean to two species, the other one being Oliva
> scripta.  This only leaves Oliva sayana that occurs along the Gulf of
> Mexico coast and along up SE coast of the U.S.
>
>
> "The subsequent naming of many vague and ill-defined forms only added to
> the confusion"
>
> Probably, more than yo wanted Marlo
>
> Paul