Dear Friend,

After viewed for many times the shells in my collection (Cyprea armeniaca,
hesitata and
hesitata howelli) and spoken with shell friends,  I have thought that these
shells could be a form or subspecies of the same species, infact if I
remember well (now I'm in office and I don't have the compendium
here) the compendium of the seashells classify the armeniaca like a form of
hesitata or
viceversa hesitata form of armenica...

After this discussion the classification could be :

Umbilia armeniaca armeniaca                     (Verco, 1912)
Umbilia armeniaca armeniaca form brunnea        (Raybaudi, 1993)
Umbilia armeniaca armeniaca form westralica     (Raybaudi, 1980)

Umbilia armeniaca hesitata                      (Iredale, 1916)
Umbilia armeniaca hesitata form howelli         (Iredale, 1931)
Umbilia armeniaca hesitata form beddomei        (Schilder, 1930)
Umbilia armeniaca hesitata form capricornica    (Lorenz Jr., 1989)

you are agree or not with me??

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FLAVIO FAVERO
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