Jenny,
Many of the faunal surveys of Honduras and Panama were done 60 or more
years ago. Some important publications reporting the results of field
collections and surveys of the land snail fauna in this region included:
"Land Mollusks from The Island of Roatan, Honduras" Horace Richards, Proc.
Am. Phil. Soc. vol. 79, No. 2, June 1938, pp167 - 178; Pl. I-III.
"The Land Mollusks Of The Republic Of Panama And The Canal Zone" H.A.
Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. LXXVIII, 1926; pp. 57 - 126;
Pl. IX - X.
"Descriptions Of Middle American Land And Freshwater Mollusca" H.A.
Pilsbry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Phil., Vol. LXXXVII, 1935; pp. 1-6; Pl. 1.
"Mollusca From Central America And Mexico" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil.;
Dec. 1919; pp. 212-223; Pl. XI.
"Land Mollusca Of The Panama Canal Zone" H.A. Pilsbry; Proc. Acad. Nat.
Sci. Phil.; Aug. 1910; pp. 502-509; Pl. XXXVII.
There are many other papers dealing with land shells found in Mexico,
Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, which also include species found in
Honduras and Panama.
This literature can be a springboard for future faunal surveys. Any new
field work that can add to the literature and reinforce the current
information will most certainly be beneficial.
Rich
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At 11:33 AM 4/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks Kevin. Do you think we should expand our survey to include land
>and/or freshwater fauna from that region? That is, is the area generally
>poorly known? Would our findings be of interest or use?
>
>Jenny
>
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>> From: Kevin S. Cummings <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Panama and Honduras papers
>> Date: Monday, 13 April, 1998 16:30 PM
>>
>> Here is a list of papers that include freshwater mollusks from either
>> Panama or Honduras:
>>
>> Coney, C.C., and A. Lopez. 1992. Comparative anatomy of Mycetopoda and
>> Anodontites (Mycetopodidae) from Central America with Mutella
>(Mutellidae)
>> from East Africa. Western Society of Malacologists. Annual Report.
>> 24:30-31.
>> Dunker, W. 1858. Einige neue species der naiaden. Malakozoologische
>> Bl=E4tter 5:225-229.
>> Lea, I. 1858. Description of four new fresh-water molluscs, from the
>> Isthmus of Darien and Honduras. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural
>> Sciences of Philadelphia 10:118.
>> Lea, I. 1859. Description of a new species of Unio from the Isthmus of
>> Darien. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
>> 11:281.
>> Lea, I. 1859. Descriptions of twenty-one new species of exotic
>Unionidae.
>> Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
>11:151-154.
>> Lea, I. 1860. Descriptions of exotic Unionidae. Journal of the Academy
>> of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4(second series)3(7):235-271 + 13
>> plates.
>> Tryon, G.W. 1863. Descriptions of two new species of fresh water
>> mollusca, from Panama. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of
>> Philadelphia 15:146.
>> von Martens, E. 1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater
>> Mollusca. xxviii + 675 pp. (pp. 478-540)
>> Zetek, J. 1918. Los moluscos de la Rep=FAblica de Panam=E1. Privately
>> printed 69 pp.
>> Zetek, J. 1918. Los moluscos de la Rep=FAblica de Panam=E1. Revista
>Nueva
>> 5(2-6):509-575.
>>
>> Kevin S. Cummings
>> Illinois Natural History Survey
>> 607 E. Peabody Drive
>> Champaign, IL 61820
>> 217/333-1623
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>> http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/collections/mollusk.html
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