Dear Carole et al.,
Thanks; I was able to locate the original description of Oliva edwardsi
[sic] Olsson, 1967 thanks to Carole. Olsson's exact words were:
"This Olive is named for Lt. Colonel Corinne Edwards of the Miami Shell
Club, a dedicated collector of Recent and fossil shells." There is no
other intimation of etymology. Petuch's emendation to Oliva edwardsae was
justified, and Olsson's thinking is still unclear. Somehow misguided,
perhaps he was treating Edwards as a masculine noun since it is a male
given name in English.
Harry
At 10:02 AM 1/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Oliva edwardsi was described by Axel Olsson in 1967, in a Paleontological
>Research Institute (PRI) report entitled: "Some Tertiary Mollusks from
>South Florida and the Caribbean", plate 6, figure 7. The publication is
>not part of the regular Bulletins of Paleontology from PRI, it is a
>separate "special" publication.
>
>Oliva edwardsi's type locality is the "old" Belle Glade Pit in Florida in
>what was called "Unit A" which I believe was renamed the Bermont Formation
>later. The type is in the USNM. The "i" ending for the species is a
>little odd since it was named after a female - retired Lt. Colonel Corrine
>Edwards. There have been some various rumors as to why Olsson did that -
>some sort of a joke - he obviously knew his taxonomy inside out.
>
>Petuch, in his 1994 book entitled "Atlas of Florida Fossil Shells", in the
>caption for Plate 81 K, L, the shell was renamed to Oliva edwardsae, in
>honor of Corrine Edward's gender.
>
>The most common characteristic is a dark blue/gray to black color in the
>Bermont formation. It looks like a short, low spired Oliva sayana.
>Validity, I am not sure, but the early publication date sure makes it a
>likely contender for synonymy with other later fossil Olives named by
>Petuch. Oliva edwardsae does not exist in the recent, other than specimens
>that might was up after storms from offshore Florida submerged Pleistocene
>beds.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Here is a conversation from Conch=l from last June on Oliva edwardsae. I
>thought since we were having this ending discussion again I would re post it.
> Carole
>
>
>
>Paul
>At 09:15 PM 7/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me about Oliva edwardsae Olsson, 1967 from SE Florida? It
>>is not in Petuch & Sargent.
>>Is is a color form of sayana?
>>
>>Thanks much
>>
>>
>>John Wolff
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