My apologies to the list.  I sent a personal email intended for  my
(COA)roommate to the list.
Sorry!  Kay

----- Original Message -----
From: "charles sturm jr" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fla. Horse Conch & Chank in Yucatan, Belizé & the Gulf


> In an unpublished paper written by Jose Parodiz circa 1977, entitled
Marine
> Mollusca Collected in Yucatan, Jose documented Pleuroploca gigantea from
> the Yucatan.  The entry in the manuscript reads
> "124. Pleuroploca gigantea (Kiener, 1840). Loc. 1, 3, young specimens of
> different sizes; many adult broken shells, and also egg cases. Maya sites
> 11, 12, 14, 14a, 15, 18, 20."
>
> Site 1 = Isla Aguada, which is a semi-island on the Laguna de Terminos
> opposite to Ciudad Carmen.
>
> Site 3 = Champoton, 65 km. south of Campeche.
>
> Maya Sites:
> northern Yucatan 11-14a
> 11 = Dzibilchatum
> 12 = Isla Cancun Midden
> 14 = Balankanche
> 14a = Chichen Itza
>
> southern Yucatan 15-20
> 15 = Barton Ramie
> 18 = Uxatucum
> 20 = Tikal
>
> Jose did not collect the Mayan sites.  This was info he extracted from a
> paper by E. Wyllis Andrews. 1969. The Archaeological Use and Distribution
> of Mollusca in the Maya Lowlands. (Publication 34 of the Middle American
> Research Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans).   For those not
> familiar with Jose, he is the curator emeritus of malacology at the
> Carnegie Museum of Natural History; a position he has held for some 20
> years.  Prior to this he was curator from 1952-1981, and prior to that he
> affiliated with a museum in Argentina for some 20 years.  A malacological
> career spanning some 70 years!
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
>