Dear Marlo,

I don't have my Latin dictionary at hand, but leg. indicates for centuries:
collected by.
Preference is given to leg. over coll. because the latter may be an
indication for either: collected by, or more usually: in the collection of,
which is something very different.

For example:

Vitta usnea (Roeding, 1798)
U.S.A., Florida, Panama City
leg. H. & M. Minzak, Oct. 1964   (=collected by)
coll. H.K. Mienis, now ZMA  (=in the collection of H.K. Mienis, now
Zoological Museum of Amsterdam)

Regards,

Henk

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Subject: Neritidae westcoast of Florida


>
> Henk,
>
> What does "leg" mean?  Is this the "legend" (data with the shell)?
>
> marlo
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> mienis
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:27 PM
>
> Dear Conchlers,
>
> Here are the data of samples belonging to the Neritidae from West Florida,
> which were once in my collection. Most of them are now in the Zoological
> Museum of Amsterdam.
>
> Vitta usnea (Roeding, 1798) (= reclivata)
>
> Panama City, leg. H. & M. Minzak, Oct. 1964
> Spring Creek on the Gulf State Road # 365, South Tallahassee leg. F.
> Hausman
> Tampa, leg. W.J. Clench, before 1947
> Tampa bay, leg. H. & M. Minzak, January 1965; same locality leg. PJW
> Clover
> 1967
> Water Dept. Spring, Henderson St., Tampa, leg. R.T.Abbott, 28 January 1970
> Apalachicola River, leg. G.D. Gordon, 17 February 1980
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Henk K. Mienis
>

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