During his later years, Pilsbry occasionally had funny ideas about species
placements. You may read my account of his description of Stenacme floridana
as a pulmonate species here:
http://snailstales.blogspot.com/2010/03/stenacme-floridana-what-was-pilsbry.html

Aydin
snailstales.blogspot.com


On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 12:41:42 -0500, David Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>A large portion of Pilsbry's publications (mainly ANSP stuff) are
>available via JSTOR.
>
>Pilsbry sometimes proposed new taxa rather casually, and these have
>been missed in many compilations, e.g. Scalaxis Pilsbry, 1909,
>proposed in the index to the Achatina volume simply to exclude
>Achatina rillyensis de Boissy, 1848 from Achatina, is not in the
>Clench and Turner taxon list; I'm not sure if Johnson and Clench
>caught it.
>
>--
>Dr. David Campbell
>425 Scientific Collections
>University of Alabama
>"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
>
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