Dear Dan
I have studied Jenneria pustulata in the set of 32 Cypraeoidean species in
my thesis on Caenogastropoda morphological phylogeny. I have obtained it as
the fist branch of the Ovulidae. The paper is almost published and will be
available very soon.
Best wishes, Luiz
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Luiz Ricardo L. Simone
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
Cx. Postal 42594
04299-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Em 11 Dec 2002,         Dan Yoshimoto escreveu:

>To those of the "Cypraea persuasion",
> Today I received another specimen of Jenneria pustulata (Lightfoot,
>1786), which caused me to check the family in which it belonged, before
>entering it into my database and making tags. A few years ago I had
>entered it under Triviidae Eisenberg "Seashells of the World", pg. 59.
>Looking into Keen's "Seashells of Tropical West America (2nd edition) pg.
>499, it is listed under Ovulidae. So far we have a disagreement between 2
>authors, but to make it a bit more interesting, Tucker Abbott and Peter
>Dance's "Compendium of Seashells",(2nd edition) pg. 98, places Jenneria
>pustulata in Triviidae, whereas their 4th edition places it in Ovulidae.
> Can someone (Lindsey Groves?) please clarify what is the present
>(December 11, 2002, 11:28p.m.) family to which our devilish little species

>belongs?
> Thanks to those that have helped with this problems.
>Dan
>
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