>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:42:43 EST
>From: "Michael A. Landolfa" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: central american
>
>Hi, I am trying to find some resources on Central American land
>snails. Specifically, I want to know which land snail species
>(species names with their families listed) can be found in Costa Rica
>and Panama. Species descriptions (typical, as found in field guides)
>will also be very useful.
>
>Does anyone know of such resources?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Landolfa
>Dept. Biology
>McGill University
>Montreal, Canada
>
Here are a few references from a bibliographic database on freshwater
mussels that Tom Watters, Art Bogan and I are working on:
Dall, W.H. 1908. Descriptions and figures of some land and fresh-water
shells from Mexico, believed to be new. Proceedings of the United States
National Museum 35(1642):177-182 + 2 plates.
Fischer, P., and H. Crosse. 1894. Éstudes sur les mollusques terrestres
et fluviatiles. pp. 505-622 in M. H.-Milne Edwards (ed.) Mission
scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique Centrale. Recherches
Zoologiques. Septieme Partie. Tome 2. 731 pp.
Fischer, P. & H. Crosse 1870. Études sur les mollusques terrestres et
fluviatiles du Mexique et du Guatemala. Mission scientifique au Mexique et
dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches Zoologiques 1:1-19.
Gould, A.A. 1855. New species of land and fresh-water shells from western
(N.) America. (Cont.). Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural
History 5(15):228-229.
Hanna, G.D. 1923. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the
Gulf of California in 1921. Land and freshwater mollusks. Proceedings of
the California Academy of Sciences 12(26):483-527. + 5 plates.
Lea, I. 1857. Description of six new species of fresh water and land
shells of Texas and Tamaulipas, from the collection of the Smithsonian
Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia 9:101-102.
Marshall, W.B. 1926. New land and fresh-water mollusks from Central and
South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum
69(12):1-12 + 3 plates.
Pilsbry, H.A. 1920. Costa Rican land and freshwater mollusks.
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 72:2-10.
Tate, R. 1870. On the land and fresh-water Mollusca of Nicaragua.
American Journal of Conchology 5(3):151-162.
Tristram, H.B. 1863. Supplemental catalogue of terrestrial and fluviatile
mollusks collected in Guatemala by O. Salvin, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863:411-414.
van der Schalie, H. 1948. The land and fresh-water mollusks of Puerto
Rico. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of
Michigan 70:1-134.
von Martens, E. 1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater
Mollusca. xxviii + 675 pp. (pp. 478-540)
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
607 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
217/333-1623
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