Carole,

there are two issues of Malacologia edited by Bouchet & Rocroi giving
authorship and date of family and higher level taxa as well as a working
classification of gastropods and bivalves respectively. You definitely
want to have both! They are available via ConchBooks.

Cheers, Sven

> Dear  listers,
>  I have a difference of  authors for the family Cystiscidae. Somewhere I
> have found the authors  as  Coovert,  G.A. & H.K. Coovert, 1995
> (http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/TN_Family_CYSTISCIDAE.shtml) and
> others credit
> Stimpson, 1865 who named a subfamily Cysticinae. Could  someone tell me
> which
> is correct. Also, someone recently posted a bivalve link  for the family
> revisions. If there something for the gastropods. I believe this  is a
> replacement for ed. R.C. Moore Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology. I
> see
> references for a paper by Bouchet, does that give familial  explanations?
>  I  am as always indebted for any assistance,
>           Carole Marshall


Dr. Sven Nielsen
Institut für Geowissenschaften
-Paläontologie-
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
Ludewig-Meyn-Str. 10
24118 Kiel
Germany

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