At 09:43 AM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:35 AM 9/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Rhiostoma smithi Bartsch, 1932.  No parentheses.
>>Tortulosa doesn't occur in Thailand.  I know what you probably have, but
>>can't remember the name.  Tomlin described it.  I collected them by the bag
>>full.  Looks like Tortulosa, but it's not.  Pinkish to brown colored in
>>life.  Email me privately and I'll try to track it down if no one else
>>steps up to the plate....
>>
>>
>
>How about either Rhiostoma chupingense Tomlin, 1938, or R. samuiense
>Tomlin, 1931.
>
Tom,
Nope.  These are both real Rhiostoma.  This thing is elongate, shaped like
a clausiliid.  I have the name in some notes I made at the Field Museum
many moons ago.  I had never been able to identify the darned thing, but
came across some paratypes of Tomplin's while looking over their
cyclophoroids.

Kurt



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