Dear Tom;-
    I thought "schnecken" was like a breakfast roll and "weltschmertz"
something like chicken gravy. (What do I know!)
    I don't think I'd rely much on anything Coen published. I'm doing
the "Authors in Cypraea" and Coen describes about 50 of them---all
synonyms.
    From what I gather, I can do work on Latiaxis and similar shells and
call them anything I like. Someone out there will oppose, and someone
will support.
        Art

"Thomas E. Eichhorst" wrote:

> And furthermore... Dear Conchlers,
>
> to complete our discussion about these two genera, I want to tell you
> that
> Gert Lindner (also member on conch-l) keeps both genera in his book
> Muscheln und Schnecken der Weltmeere, BLV (in German, but great and
> important for all collectors, even they don't understand German) a
> small nice book with nearly all families and a very high
> levelled overview through the marin families)
> under Fam. Coralliophilidae.
> Latiaxis Swainson, 1840
>
> Babelomurex Coen, 1922 (syn. Langfordia Dall, 1924; Tolema Iredale,
> 1929)
>
> Coralliophila H. & A. Adams, 1853 (syn. Latiromurex Coen, 1922;
> Lepadomurex Coen, 1922;
>
> Pseudomurex Monterosato, 1872)
>
>
> Instead the:
> Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana a cura di A. Minelli, S.
> Ruffo, S. La Posta
> parte: Gastrapoda Opistobranchia di Daniele Bedulli et al.
> is keeping both genera under Fam. Muricidae and doesn't have
> Coralliophilidae
>
> hope this helps for the moment
>
> with best latiaxid greetings
> your Helmurex from Innsbruck
>
>
> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
>
> office:
> Natural History Department of the
> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
> Feldstrasse 11 a
> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37