>The best source of identifications of your shells is Ed Petuch's Atlas,
>which was well reviewed in the COA, available on its website.

Ed Peteuch is rather generous in recognizing taxa, so don't worry if you
have trouble distinguishing some of the species.  It is the most up to date
general reference, so it should be helpful in that regard.

Also on a paleontological note, a prominent worker on Paleozoic bivalves,
especially of the Czech Republic, is Jiri Kriz.  Both r's and the z take
the small v-shaped accent on top, and the second and third i's take acute
accents (i.e., sloping down to the left.)  I think five accents in eight
letters is some sort of record, but do not know for sure.   No one else
cited in my dissertation has more than two accents in the last name.
Vladimir Havlicek is Kriz's co-author, so the total of three (2nd and 3rd i
acute and c with the v) pales by comparison.  Gunther, Simoes, Noren, O
Foighil, and a more recent Muller all have one (u with umlaut first and
last, o with tilde for Simoes, and acute accent on e and O for the rest).
Le achieves fifty percent accented with a circumflex on the e, but was not
writing about mollusks.


Dr. David Campbell
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geological Sciences
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315 USA
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug