>>At 12:50 AM 5/10/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>>Could someone recommend references for the freshwater mollusks of Papua New
>>>Guinea and in particular Lake Kitubu?
>>>
>>>Doug Shelton
>>>Alabama Malacological Research Center
>>>2370-G Hillcrest Road #236
>>>Mobile, AL 36695
 
>From:    "G. Thomas Watters" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Freshwater Mollusks of Papua New Guinea
 
>These might have something of interest:
>
>Banarescu, P. 1993. Continents, ocean basins and freshwater zoogeography.
>II. South America and Australia/New Guinea. Revue Roumaine de Biologie 38:1-9.
>
>Johnson, R.I. 1948. A new naiad from Dutch New Guinea. Nautilus 62(2):47-48
>+ 1 plate.
>
>Johnson, R.M. 1879. Further notes on the freshwater shells of New Guinea.
>Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1878:19-29.
>
>Jutting, T. van B. 1935. Non-marine Mollusca from Dutch New Guinea. Nova
>Guinea 17:71-150.
>
>McMichael, D.F. 1956. Notes on the freshwater mussels of New Guinea.
>Nautilus 70(2):38-48 + 1 plate.
>
>Tapparone-Canefri, C. 1883. Fauna malacologica della Nuova Guinea e delle
>isole adiacenti. Ann. Pubblicazioni del Museo di Storia Naturale Genova.
>19:5-313.
>
A few to add to Tom's list:
 
Bevay, A.  1908.  Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles.  Nova Guinea
5:260-292.
 
Clench, W.J.  1957.  Two new land and freshwater mollusks from New Guinea.
Breviora  76:1-4.
 
Haas, F  1910.  Neue najaden.  Nachrichtenblatt Deutschen
Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft  42:97-103.
 
Haas, F.  1924.  Unsere bisherigen Kenntinne der Najadenfauna Neu-Guineas.
Nova Guinea  15:65-76.
 
Schepman, M.M.  1919.  On a collection of land and freshwater Mollusca and
a few marine Mollusca.  Nova Guinea  13:155-197.
 
Kevin S. Cummings
Illinois Natural History Survey
Champaign, IL
http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html
 
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