At 09:49 AM 11/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>        Dear Olive Friends,
>        The expert for Olives to my knowledge and to whom I send Sri Lanka
Olives
>        is      Jean Paul LEFORT,
>                MAEVA - HUAHINE, FRENCH POLYNESIE.
>
>        He has no email address to my knowledge, you could write to him
refering
>to me.
>        Gunasena de Silva
>        Colombo / Sri Lanka.
>
>
>
>
>At 10:24 PM 11/21/99 PST, you wrote:
>>Dear Rafael
>>
>>at home I've an older book on Olivida
>>
>>Olive Shells of the World
>>by Rowland F. Zeigler
>>and
>>Humbert C. Porrecea, 1969
>>printed in the USA by
>>Rochester Polychrome Press. Inc. 45 Halstead St., Rochester
>>
>>published by Zeigler and Porrecea
>>
>>He named Oliva graphica Marrat, 1870 as synonyme of
>>Oliva julieta Duclos, 1833
>>    range: Nicaragua to Peru
>>
>>Oliva circinata Marrat, 1871 as a synonym of
>>Oliva sayana Ravenel, 1834
>>    range from North Carolina to Texas, Brazil and Cuba
>>
>>
>>But there is no Oliva tostesi
>>
>>with best olive greetings from Austria
>>
>>Helmut from Innsbruck
>>
>>Helmut "Helix" Nisters
>>Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
>>A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
>>phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
>>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
>>
>>office:
>>Natural History Department of the
>>Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
>>Feldstrasse 11 a
>>A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
>>phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
>>
>>----------
>>> Dear Conch-Lers,
>>>
>>
>>> Some days ago I have received from a dealer some olives identified as;
>>> Oliva circinata Marrat, 1871  Brazil
>>> Oliva circinata tostesi Petuch,1979 Brazil
>>> Oliva graphica Marrat,1870 Brazil
>>>
>>> I have checked that in the WEB , at Mr. Poppe´s page, they appear as;
>>> Oliva circinata F. P. Marrat, 1870 Caribbean
>>> Oliva circinata tostesi Bruguière, 1792 Caribbean
>>> Oliva graphica F. P. Marrat, 1870 Panama
>>>
>>> In the Atlas of the Living Olive Shells of the World (Petuch and
>Sargent) they
>>> appear as:
>>> Oliva graphica F. P. Marrat, 1870 Panama
>>> Oliva graphica color form circinata F. P. Marrat, 1871 Panama
>>> without any reference about tostesi.
>>>
>>> Could anybody tell me which is the correct one ?.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, have you any information about Paris meeting of next
>year?.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Rafael Gordillo Rivera
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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