Dear Hans,
If it isn't one mentioned in my paper, you might
want to provide Moshe with all the collection data and send him the image(s).
Harry
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At 03:35 PM 3/30/2016, Hans Post wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I tried to add my contribution containing two
>pictures of two South African Cowries. C.
>edentula. One is sinistral. Both collected
>Jeffreys Bay. I found pictures are refused by
>the server. I can send pictures by email or place them on facebook.
>
>Regards Hans Post
>
>Allen Aigen <[log in to unmask]> schreef :
>
> > Harry, or other experts!This brings up the
> question of why? Does the very restricted
> opening of a cowrie shell prevent mating
> between left handed and right handed forms,
> thus dooming the extremely rare spontaneously
> generated (mutated?) sinistral genes? Do we
> even have enough biological information to make
> a good guess?Allen Aigen From: Moshe
> Erlendur Okon <[log in to unmask]> To:
> [log in to unmask] Sent: Wednesday,
> March 30, 2016 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [CONCH-L]
> was [CONCH-L] second try: 1967 Keppel Bay
> Tidings newsletter needed; now need
> fulfilled Indeed, Harry.Bill Fenzan kindly
> sent me both the article and the images I
> needed.Incidentally, regarding your 2010
> article you mentioned, I think that by omitting
> part of the text, you may have presented
> Schilder’s statement (in his 1964 article) as much more decisive than
> > actually meant. What Schilder had written was:
> > “In cowries sinistral specimens are
> extremely rare, if indeed they occur at
> > all But I think
> > that nobody will find a sinistral cowrie.”Based on his handling of over
> > 150,000 specimens over his forty four years
> of research, Schilder’s skepticism
> > can easily be understood.Moshe Erlendur
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Derrick,
> > I believe Moshe has found the figure through the kind agency of Bill
> > Fenzan
> > <
> > https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CONCH-L;cbcf9941.1603d>,
> > but I believe it was a few issues later than the one he cited, to
> > wit:
> > "Apparently, the gauntlet was never retrieved by Griffiths, but it
> > didn’t take long for Schilder’s pervasive
> prediction to be repudiated by
> > a fellow Aussie. Early in 1967, Jack Aitken took a sinistral Bistolida
> > brevidentata brevidentata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1870) off Tryon Island,
> > Capricorn Group, Queensland, Australia. It was reported in the
> > 9/67 Keppel Bay Tidings and illustrated in the 12/67
> > number of that periodical accompanied by a Don Byrne photo. Mrs. Val
> > Harris of Caloundra, Qld., the second owner, sold it to Luigi Raybaudi
> > Massilia of Rome, Italy, in 1976 (Harris, personal communication, 23 May,
> > 1980; Raybaudi, 1987: 2 color figs.), and it has changed hands at least
> > twice since then. Despite its present obscurity, the shell, or at least
> > the two sets of its photographic images, has left its imprint in the
> > annals of conchology" [Lee, 2010: 6; my boldface].
> > Lee, H.G., 2010. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or never
> > say “never.” American Conchologist 38(3): 6-9. September.
> > <
> > http://www.conchologistsofamerica.org/publications/pdfs/201007.pdf
> > >
> > Harry
> >
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