Dear colleagues and friends
I have studied a sample of 32 species of conoideans for my thesis on
phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda (11 conids, 10 terebrids, 11 turrids).
Conidae and Terebridae resulted monophyletic, however, Turridae
crumbled. This family resulted polyphyletic, with representatives
located in the cladogram as basal conoideans (in a paraphyletic
arrangement), and others situated between the terebrids and the conids.
I am working in the publication of those data.
Best wishes,
Luiz

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Luiz Ricardo L. Simone, Ph. D.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Cx. Postal 42594
04299-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Enviada em: sábado, 13 de abril de 2002 03:17
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Assunto: Conidae-Turridae

Dear Alfonso and others,

the taxonomic changes in the Conidae and Turridae (moving some of the
turrid subfamilies to the Conidae) was done by Taylor, Kantor and
Sysoev.
You can read all about it in the following publication:

Taylor, J., Kantor, Y., and Sysoev, A., (1993). Foregut anatomy, feeding
mechanisms, relationships and reclassification of the (Conoidea (=
Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda) Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London
59,
125-170

To cut a long story short, they reclassified a number (and I stress a
number) of Conoid (meaning Conidae + Turridae + Terebridae) taxa on the
basis of some very detailed anatomy. When I was writing my book on
shells
of Sydney, this paper had just come out, so I followed the proposed
changes, and have been following others' reactions to them since. I
have...