At 11:52 AM 12/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Fellow shellers,
>
>Just curious...
>Does anyone out there have a plausible explanation of why the genus
>Sassia is placed in Ranellidae rather than Bursidae?
>
Don't all Bursidae have the anal "siphons" formed into tubes (just look at
lamarckii), whereas ranellids only have a notch?
G. Thomas Watters
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