At 12:12 PM 8/26/99 -0400, you wrote:

>...is there a way for those of us for whom Latin names are
>initially just NOT being retained by our organic memory banks to
>efficiently relate the common names to the proper Latin names of molluscs
>in online databases such as gastropods.com or the like?

>And lastly....   does anyone know of a good CD-ROM reference for
>shells/molluscs?


The American Fisheries Society (AFS) published last year the volume on
mollusks of the series "Common and Scientific Names of Aquartic
Invertebrates from the United States and Canada", a large body of work that
includes common and scientific names of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine
mollusks. Although published in check list format and not worldwide in
coverage, the book and accompanying CD-ROM bring a lot of information in
its appendices and notes. For more info, please check the AFS website:
www.fisheries.org.

Best,

Jose
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