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Date: | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:31:33 -0400 |
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Dear Tom,
Thanks for the acknowledgement. I love those little guys. If anyone has
nerites (marine or otherwise) they can't hang names on, just let me know.
There are quite a few very poorly known endemics in the Indo-Pacific. You
have to go back to Martini-Chemnitz to get decent coverage. They are not
as bad as they appear to be sometimes and not so easy as they appear
sometimes either. A monograph would be nice. Hey, I'm not doing anything
next week.
Kurt
At 10:05 AM 9/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>> Kurt,
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>Thanks for the clarification on our confusing east coast nerite complex.
There
>are undoubtedly quite a few of us who have been confused by these guys. I
know
>I have received at least three different species all under the N. zebra logo.
>The latest was just this last week in a shell store on the west coast. I
bought
>what was labeled as N. zebra but they were actually N. turrita (which was
what I
>wanted because my specimen all had worn spires). In this case the
confusion was
>so great they mixed up the oceans involved!!
>
>I printed your e-mail and it will remain stuck between the nerite pages in my
>favorite shell book. Now I need to go look for a few of those guys as I had
>assumed many were synonyms.
>
>Again thanks,
>
>Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA
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