Dear Conchlers,

each entrance of a new shell will get a new number and in systematical
order. The number is a current number and will start every year with
number 1. So you find can find the following number (I'll give a few
samples from the year 1998 as I have this year book on hand).
I'll enter these numbers in my database in the computer and my mother
is again writing the year books as a catalogue.

1998 / 0494
Fam. Trochidae
Gibbula magus (Linnaeus, 1758)
   P - Porto de Vilamoura, Vilamoura, Algave, 15 - 20 m, leg. Carlos A.,          ex coll. Springer, 3 spec.

1998 / 0495
Fam. Trochidae
Gibbula fanulum (Gmelin, 1791)
   P - Armacao de Pera, Algarve, 10 - 15 m, leg. Carlos A.,
         ex coll. Springer, 1 Ex.

1998 / 0496
.......

1998 / 0497

these numbers are current and going up to the end of a year,
the next year is starting again with number 1

1999 / 0001

and so on.

This is our numbering system since our beginning in 1960.

with best regards
Helmut from Innsbruck




Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
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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