Search the internet using Google (http://www.google.com/) with the genus
and species name. There is a wealth of information available.

Bill F.
www.jaxshells.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sue Gulley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: New Subscriber


> Thanks to all who pointed a newbie to many sources of information. I am
now
> on my way to identification of my collection, or most of it. I have a
couple
> of shells I haven't found on any dealer lists and would appreciate any
> further help anyone could offer. One shell has the following description:
> Argonauta hians Solander, trawled by commercial fishing boat at 60
fathoms,
> silt bottom off Chipei Tao, Pescadores Is., Straits of Taiwan, March 1971.
I
> don't have a millimeter measurement conversion at the moment, but there
are
> five of them and they're 2 inches long. They are paper-thin but in great
> shape.
> My question is : What is the taxonomy of this one so I can do a more
> efficient search?