A colleague has called to my attention an event that may clarify the matter
of "no new species in the western Atlantic."  It appears that this remark is
generally attributed to the late Joe Rosewater.  At the 1975 AMU in San
Diego he gave a tribute to William H. Dall. In that paper he stated the
number of species Dall named.  There was ad lib conversation following the
paper in which the remark about "no new species" was made in jest due to the
great number of species described by Dall.  That paper may be found in: J.
Rosewater, 1976. Tribute to William Healey Dall. Bulletin of the American
Malacological Union for 1975: 4-6, portrait.

dick petit

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