Thanks, Harry.  Yours was the only response.  I should have known
that.....you are awesome.

Kurt

At 07:05 PM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Kurt,
>These are my six cents' worth (in context; your three taxa):
>
>At 09:57 AM 4/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>Dear All:
>>
>>What is the current status of the following?
>>
>>Dentalium texasianum (need current name)
>Dentalium americanum  Chenu, 1843 is a senior subjective synonym of D.
>texasianum Philippi, 1848 and should replace that name. Turgeon, Quinn, et
al.
>[Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G.
Hochberg, W.
>G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B.
Roth,
>A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J. D. Williams, 1998.
>Common and
>scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada:
>mollusks, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 26,
>Bethesda, Maryland.] agreed.
>
>>Conus jaspideus (need current name in northern Gulf of Mexico)
>my solution is Conus jaspideus stearnsii  Conrad, 1869
>An admitted cop-out as this taxon was given full species rank, distinct
from C.
>jaspideus Gmelin, 1791, by Vink [Vink, D. L. N., 1991.  The Conidae of the
>western Atlantic: part 15. La Conchiglia 22(261): 10-21.] but placed in
>synonymy
>with that taxon by Costa [Costa, F. H. A., 1994.  On the Conus jaspideus
>complex
>of the western Atlantic (Gastropoda: Conidae). Veliger 37(2): 204-213. April
>1.]. Turgeon, Quinn, et al. [Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E.
Bogan, E.
>V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E.
>Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione
and J.
>D. Williams, 1998.  Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from
>the United States and Canada: mollusks, 2nd edition. American Fisheries
>Society,
>Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland.] sided with Vink.
>
>
>>Argopecten irradians concentricus (need current name for populations in the
>>northern Gulf of Mexico)
>These are best called A. irradians taylorae Petuch, 1987, but Turgeon,
>Quinn, et
>al. [Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G.
Hochberg,
>W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B.
>Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J. D. Williams, 1998.
>Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United
States and
>Canada: mollusks, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Special
Publication
>26, Bethesda, Maryland.] used A. i. concentricus.
>See Marelli, D. C., M. K. Krause, W. S. Arnold, and W. G. Lyons, 1997.
>Systematic relationships among Florida populations of Argopecten irradians
>(Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). Nautilus 110(2): 31-41. Feb. 19.
>...and...
>Marelli, D. C., W. G. Lyons, W. S. Arnold, and M. K. Krause, 1997.
Subspecific
>status of Argopecten irradians concentricus (Say, 1822) and of the Bay
Scallps
>of Florida. Nautilus 110(2): 42-44. Feb. 19.
>
>>I can't find them in the current version of the vernacular name book.
>>
>>Many thanks......Kurt
>
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