Phil
Looks to me as if your Partula IDs are OK,
although I am not sure if 8 & 13 are suturalis or affinis?
18 also looks pretty close to radiolata ??
Possibly also No 2 P. hyalina Tahiti
                10 P. clara
                11 P. lutea Bora bora
Unfortunately these are all from specimens in my collection
and I do not have much literature to support the names
I,ll keep looking
Regards
Geoff


>From: Phil Liff-Grieff <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: unknown land snails from Pacific Islands (?)
>Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:06:55 -0700
>
>Wolfgang,
>
>You've got a nice grouping of Partula species with one Hawaiian Achatinella
>thrown in for good measure.  I'm not very good with Partulas but I will
>take
>a stab at identifying some of these.  Are there any Partula experts out
>there
>who can identify these shells with some certainty?
>
>A few wild guesses at some of the Pacific island shells on your webpage:
>
>#'s 6, 6a, 7 & 12 - Partula rosea  Broderip, 1832 (?)
>
>#'s 8 & 13- P. suturalis Pfeiffer, 1855  (?)  (variety?)
>
>#9- P. protea  Pease (?)
>
>#15- A color form of Achatinella stewartii (Green, 1827)  also described in
>the literature as A. dunkeriPfeiffer, 1855,  from Mount Tantalus, Oahu,
>Hawaii
>(this species has both sinistral and dextral forms- all the ones in my
>collection are sinistral so it's nice to see a dextral shell)
>
>#18- Partula radiolata (Pfeiffer, 1846) (?)
>
>Lets hear from the experts on the Partulas.....
>
>
>All the best,
>
>Phil Liff-Grieff
>liffgrieff @earthlink.net
>La Crescenta, California
>
>FISCHER WOLFGANG wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > On my web-site I have added 22 pictures of unknown land snails. I think
> > they came from Pacific Islands. They are all from an old collection
>(Prof.
> > Karl Uetz) and are collected from 1900 -1950.With your help I hope it is
> > possible to indentifie this land snails.
> >
> > http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Unbekannt/Index_unbekannt.html
> >
> > Next week I add some pictures of Cyclophorus species.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > Wolfgang Fischer
> > Institut fuer Pflanzenbau u. Pflanzenzuechtung
> > Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur
> > Gregor Mendel Str. 33
> > 1180 Wien
> > AUSTRIA
> >
> > http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/index.html
> > E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >    Fax: ++43 1 47654-3342
> >    Tel: ++43 1 47654-3307

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