Dear David,
        You are right that I haven't yet found Higo, Callomon & Goto.  We
spent two weeks in Japan, this time and each day, besides collecting, we
searched book stores & museums for shell books, in Japanese as my wife is
Japanese and wanted some books that she could use.  No luck!!!
        I'm sure that there have been many changes in taxanomic
nomenclature since the Okutani Sea Shells Volume 8 of the encyclopedic set
was published.  If you have an idea where the Higo et al. book can be
bought I'd appreciate any help or hints.
        Thank you for the time and effort that you made to help out with
the names that I sent to Conch-L.  I really should have the above
publication, even though there are no illustrations.  Does it have all the
synomyms of previously published Japanese species?  And the Japanese names
besides?
        Well, I should quit for now.  You have been a great help.
Dan Yoshimoto


>As you probably have not yet found a copy of Higo, Callomon, and Goto,
>here are their opinions:
>Monodonta labio (Forma confusa) is Monodonta labio confusa
>Tapparone-Canefri, 1874
>Astralium haemafragum (Menke, ) is Astralium haematragum (Menke, 1829)
>(note spelling)
>Audolium pyriforme (Sowerby, ) is Eudolium pyriforme (Sowerby III, 1914c)
>Mammilla simnae (Deshayes, ) is Mammilla simiae (Deshayes in Lamarck, 1838
>in 1835-45)
>Morula musiva (Kiener, ) is Morula (Morula) musiva (Kiener, 1836 in 1834-80)
>Pinctada panasesae (Jameson, ) is Pinctada panaseae (Jameson, 1901) (note
>spelling), a synonym of P. maculata (Gould, 1850 in 1846-50).  However,
>synonymy of Indo-Pacific Pinctada species seems to vary between
>references.
>Antisabia foliacea (Quoy & Gaimard, ) is Antisabia foliacea (Quoy and
>Gaimard, 1835 in 1832-5)
>Anomia chinensis Philippi, is Anomia chinensis Philippi, 1849a
>Tonna lischkeana Küster, is T. lischkeana (Kuster, 1857) (umlaut on u), a
>synonym of T. dolium (Linnaeus, 1758).  T. lischkeana of most authors is
>also synonymized with dolium, but T. lischkeana sensu Kuroda 1928, 1960 is
>listed under T. tessellata (Lamarck, 1816a).
>Trochus calcaratus (Sowerby, ) is Trochus calcaratus Souverbie, 1875, a
>synonym of T. (T.) histrio Reeve, 1848 in 1843-65
>Thais (Thaisella) muricina (Blainville, ) is Thais (Semiricinula) muricina
>(Blainvile, 1832) (type of subgenus)
>Clyypeomorus trailli kikaiensis (Sowerby, ) is Cerithium trailli
>kikaiensis Pilsbry, 1904, one of many synonyms of Cerithium zonatum (Wood,
>1828 in 1818-28)
>Collisella oyamai (Habe, ) is Yayoiacmaea oyami (Habe, 1955c), type of
>Yayoiacmaea Sasaki and Okutani, 1993b
>Bentharca xenophoricola (Kuroda, ) is Bentharca xenophoricola (Kuroda, 1930)
>Samacar (Starbo) pacifica (Nemura & Zinbo, ) is Samacar pacifica (Nomura,
>Niino, and Jinbo, 1934), a synonym of Samacar strabo (Hedley, 1915 in
>1906-1923).  Higo et al. use Hyojun transliteration of Japanese, which may
>account for the variant spelling of the authors.
>Cerithideopsilla djadjariensis (Martens, ) is Cerithideopsilla
>djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899)
>Saccostrea kegaki Torigoe &Inaba  is Saccostrea kegaki Torigoe and Inaba, 1981
>Alectrion glans nipponensis Kuroda & Habe is Alectrion glans nipponensis
>Kuroda and Habe in Kuroda et al., 1971, a synonym of A. glans glans
>(Linnaeus, 1758)
>Papyriscala latifasciatus (Sowerby, ) is Papyriscala latifasciata (Sowerby
>II, 1878).  Higo et al. list it as the type of Papyriscala but then have a
>note saying that the shell with the Japanese name Kureha-gai is normally
>cited as Scalaria latifasciata Sowerby, 1878 but they could not find the
>original description or figure for verification.
>Pyrene punctata (Bruguiere, ) is Pyrene punctata (Bruguiere, 1789 in
>1789-1816) (first e should have a grave accent)
>Clivipolla pulchra (Reeve, ) is Clivipolla pulchra (Reeve, 1846 in 1843-65)
>Trochus maximus (Philippi, ) is Trochus maximus Koch in Philippi, 1844), a
>synonym of Tectus niloticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
>Nitiditellina nitidula (Dunker, ) is Nitidotellina nitidula (Dunker, 1860)
>non Deshayes, 1857 (note spelling), replaced by Nitidotellina
>hokkaidoensis (Habe, 1961a)
>Mammilla opaca (Récluz, ) is M. opaca (Recluz, 1851) (acute accent on the
>e), a synonym of M. melanostoma (Gmelin, 1791)
>
>
>    Dr. David Campbell
>    Old Seashells
>    University of Alabama
>    Biodiversity & Systematics
>    Dept. Biological Sciences
>    Box 870345
>    Tuscaloosa, AL  35487 USA
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>That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
>Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
>Droitgate Spa

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