Thanks David, Fabio, & Ed.
The situation is, obviously, complex. Since my attempt earlier to delete the
list of names was reverted by a 'senior' editor whose "preference" was to have a
list (even if its value is dubious), I will now warn anyone with access to this
posting that said list of cowry species in Wikipedia should NOT be taken
seriously.
Bob Dayle
http://cowry.org
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Quoting Eduard Heiman <[log in to unmask]>:
> Fabio,
> in the original description of Cypraea gaskoini (# 122, Plate 22) by Reeve
> (1846) the name is with one "i".
> But in the "temporary index" (contents) of the same work it is written
> "Gaskoinii, Reeve" -with two 'i's indeed. It seems to me that the "temporary
> index" is not a part of the description hence we have to continue using the
> name C. gaskoini.
> best regards
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fabio Moretzsohn
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Technical question on -ii endings of cowry names...
>
>
> Bob
>
> As David mentioned below, the literature has a lot of spelling errors, so
> you do need to check the original description. It is tricky to track those,
> and although there are some sites that provide scans of old papers including
> some original descriptions, I am not aware of such a resource that has a
> complete archive of all cowrie descriptions. For cowries, Lorenz and Hubert
> (1993, 2000) did a pretty good job at checking original descriptions. I
> cannot say that all are correct, because I did not check all original
> descriptions, but in the group I studied, the Cribrarula cribraria complex,
> one example comes to mind: most authors (e.g. Schilder and Schilder, 1938,
> Burgess, 1985) incorrectly list the Hawaiian endemic Cypraea gaskoini Reeve,
> 1846 with one "i", as it would be logical since it was dedicated to J. S.
> Gaskoin. However, the original spelling ends in "ii", therefore the correct
> spelling should be "gaskoinii" (with 2 "i"s), as in Lorenz and Hubert (1993,
> 2000).
>
> Cheers,
> Fabio M.
>
> -------------------------------
>
>
> Burgess, C. M., 1985. Cowries of the World.. Seacomber Publications, Cape
> Town. 289 pp.
>
> Lorenz F. & Hubert, A. 1993. A Guide to worldwide cowries. 571 pp.
> ConchBooks Hackenheim Germany.
>
> Lorenz F. & Hubert, A. 2000. A Guide to worldwide cowries. 590 pp.
> ConchBooks Hackenheim Germany.
>
> Schilder F.A. & Schilder, M. 1938. Prodrome of a monograph on living
> Cypraeidae. Proc. of Malacological Society of London, 23:119-231.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:01 PM, David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, ending with -i or -ii is very garbled in subsequent
> literature. You pretty much have to check the original to be certain,
> though some compilations are very reliable in most cases (e.g.,
> Sherborn's Index Animalium, available online via the Smithsonian). ae
> versus oe is another big problem, made even worse by fonts that don't
> distinguish them well, as Gary Rosenburg pointed out.
>
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
>
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