Caro Fabio,

nel Mediterrano ci sono circa 3 specie della famiglia Peraclidae.
Genus Peracle Forbes, 1844
Peracle diversa (Monterosato, 1875)
Peracle reticulata (D'Orbigny, 1846)
Peracle tricantha (Fischer, 1882)
secondo Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana
                a cura di A. Minelli, S. Ruffo, S. La Posta
fascicol0 15
Gastropoda Opisthobranchia, Divisibranchia, Gymnomorpha
Daniele Bedulli, Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti, Renato Chemello,
Fernando Ghisotti e Ferdinando Giovine.

E conosciuta anche una Peracle apicifulva Meisenheimer, 1906,
ma non sono sicuro che si tratta di un sinonimo perché non
è elencata nel listino. Per queste microspecie ti pregherei di
rivolgerti a diversi amici italiani da Roma, como Italo Nofroni.

Spero ch'io potevi aiutarti con qalche informazioni.

Helmut di Innsbruck

Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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Hello everybody,

I'm Fabio, a shell collector from Italy.

I love shells since I was 12 years old and the last few years I get
particular interest for mediterranean species.
Anyway, I treated this my hobby in discontinous manner and only this summer
I seriously started again.

I have several malacological books and I'm a subscriber of "Malacologia
Mostra Mondiale", a magazine of the "Museo Malacologico di Cupra Marittima"
(to everyone who wants to visit Italy I strongly suggest to visit this great
museum!).

Thanks to internet I discovered this listserver, so, I have a question to
anyone can help me: at the end of this summer a friend of mine gave me a
microshell (what a friend!) found in a place of Tyrrhenian central coast. It
was (not "is" because unfortunally it's broken!) a Peracle species.
Is there anyone who can give me informations about this sinistrorse genus?

Thanks a lot in advance!

                                     Fabio Carlone
                                     v. Allumiere, snc
                                     00066 Manziana (RM)  ITALY

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