Dear All,

Paul Bartsch, 1917
The Philippine Land Shells of the genus Amphidromus. Contributions to the
Biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Smithsonian
Inst. Bull. 100, Vol. I, part I.

We will put the plates and their legend on our homepage soon as it is out of
publication and people need it.

A lot of information in Bartsch but some things are strange. As for the
boholensis he gives a different species on the single coloured plate as on
the black and white plates.

Last weekend I went to Bohol in order to discover the boholensis, but
Sevilla is a very dangerous place now for white people (this is the locality
Bartsch mentions). So, we were jungle-walking for snails for two days. Near
Bilar I found 3 dead, almost fossil specimen. So, now I'm busy with people
from Sevilla, but it will take time before we see the first one I guess.
Fortunately we found 4 different Cyclophorus and the Helicostyla
camelopardalis boholensis. Only one live collected of the latter, but we
could photograph it on its tree. Dead ones in all localities done over a
large area.
Actually collecting land snails, especially the Helicostyla is indeed a lot
of traveling, losing many kgs in the jungles and little result. But it is so
rewarding when one finds something. And then, these places are plenty of
other animals, never bored inside the green.



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On 11/19/03 3:12 AM, "Kurt Auffenberg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Antonio,
> Do you have Bartsch's treatment of the Palawan Passage
> Amphidromus?....Can't remember the full citation and my library is at
> home....he describes several new forms....all the same thing, of
> course.  Many moons ago I took a small pumpboat (a little outrigger with a
> lawn-mower engine and barely wide enough for me to sit in) from Balabac all
> the way to Rio Tuba, Palawan (3 days of constant and very necessary bailing
> of water out of the "boat"..... no room for provisions so the "Captain" and
> I had rice and then rice for dessert 3 meals a day.....and got a 6-month
> long case of girardia on Bugsuk......the trip was a memory-maker)....I
> collected on many of the islands in the passage.  Every island still with
> Amphidromus had several color forms which one would call distinct if they
> only had a few shells......
>
> I never got to Amphidromus country on southern Palawan Island, as there
> were some military issues when I was there.  I can't comment on those
> populations.
>
> A. entobaptus was still fairly common on northern Palawan proper and in the
> Calamianes Group to the north.....very distinct, large, white to very, very
> faint yellow.....
>
> I'd like to see an image of your giant specimen from southern
> Palawan.....Sounds like entobaptus in size.....  and as I said, that
> species does occur on Palawan Island, not just on the Calamianes.  Your
> dealer might be off on the location....or since southern Palawan is so
> poorly know, there may be a population down there too.....who knows?
>
> Kurtles
>
>
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