Dear Olivier and others

Pardalina is from Jousseaume, 1888. It differs from Pyrene by the absence of
the subsutural band on te first teleoconch whorls (and other minor
differences). The genus Columbella is in another subfamily (with many
anatomical differences) and only occurs in America (both sides),  West
Africa and Mediterranean.

The genus Pardalina houses 2 species at this time:

Pardalina testudinaria (Link, 1807)
Pardalina marmorata (Gray, 1857)

P. testudinaria is most probably a complex of related species, but this has
to be researched more.

Many genera in Columbellidae will be split in more genera as there is
anatomical proove that some genera are polyphiletic (DeMaintenon).

Best regards,

Kevin
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From: "Olivier Caro" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: columbellidae question


> Dear List
>
> Who has found the genus Pardalina ?
> This name appears sometimes, for example for {Pyrene or Columbella}
> pardalina (i.e testudinaria), which becomes (I believe) Pardalina
> testudinaria...
>
> Why such a question, when gentle people kindly offer the answers in HSN
> archives ?
> Because, since my last Windows update, which destroyed my system, I lost
> all
> the Living Columbellidae PDF files that I stored in a "document and
> settings/subdirectory".
> Do never store anything precious in such places, which are not very safe.
>
> Cheers
>
> Olivier Caro
>
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