Dear Harry,

You've done it again!

So, this is another Pickworth. My other Pickworth from the same sample is about 15 entries down on the same page ("Pickworth from Arno, Marshall Islands") and bears no immediate resemblance save perhaps for the circular aperture.

The OBIS site has family Pickworthiidae under Littorinoidea, but the Paleobiology site (which I linked to by googling Astrosansonia dautzenbergi) has Pickworthiidae under Truncatelloidea. Are these compatible classifications?

Thanks for nailing this micro--sans protoconch.

David

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
it is otherwise an
>absolutely perfect match for the specimen of
>Astrosansonia dautzenbergi (Bavay, 1917) in Le
>Renard and Bouchet (2003: 571; fig. 1).

>
>Harry
>
>Le Renard, J. and P. Bouchet, 2003. New species
>and genera of the family Pickworthiidae
>(Mollusca, Caenogastropoda). Zoosystema 25(4): 569-591.


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