Dears,
who has informations about Pugilina (Hemifusus), please?
ABBOTT & DANCE, Compendium of Seashells, 1982, p.176, shows in one picture two different shells with the names
Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin 1791) and Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmeilin 1791).
I have exactly a specimen of the shell on the right and need the nomenclatural data.
I think the determinations at ABBOTT & DANCE are wrong. The shell on the left isn't Hemifusus tuba
but Hemifusus ternatanus. Compare the illustrations into
JONG-SAENG YOO, Korean Shells on Colour (1976), plate 16 (11),
HABE & KOSUGE, Shells of the World in Colour, Vol.II (1970), plate 23,
KIRA, T., Shells of the Western Pacific in Colour, Vol.I (1970), plate 30 (12 and 13).
The very slender shell on the right by ABBOTT & DANCE cannot be H. ternatanus - as I think.
Which species is it?
I cannot look at this in any other literature.
 
Second question:
HIGO S. & GOTO Y., A Systematic List of Molluscan Shells from the Japanese Is. and the Adjacent Area,
(1993) page 238 notes a Hemifusus elongatus (Lamarck 1822) - without picture.
Is Hemifusus elongatus a true species or  only a synonym or rather a slender form to ternatanus?
 
I would be very grateful if somebody could help me.
Greetings
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