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Re: Sassia
From:
G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:43:48 -0500
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At 11:52 AM 12/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Fellow shellers,
>
>Just curious...
>Does anyone out there have a plausible explanation of why the genus
>Sassia is placed in Ranellidae rather than Bursidae?
>
 
Don't all Bursidae have the anal "siphons" formed into tubes (just look at
lamarckii), whereas ranellids only have a notch?
 
G. Thomas Watters
Ohio Biological Survey &
Aquatic Ecology Laboratory
Ohio State University
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH  USA
v: 614-292-6170
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