At the risk of stating the obvious, any publication on mollusks that is
intended to be authoritative must be based on the published literature, not
on web sites or Wikipedia.

dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Dayle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Technical question on -ii endings of cowry names...


> 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
>
> _______________________________
> 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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