In the book Muscheln und Schnecken der Weltmeere by
Gerd Lindner, which is very fine for systematics
the Genus Colubraria is placed in the family
Buccinidae and subfam. Pisaniinae.
Hope this helps as this is the newest edition
A major fault is to install to much families for
me and all in all is sometimes badly arranged
invisuable
with best regards
Sieglinde

--- "R. Goldberg" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Vaught (Classification of the Living Mollusca, 1989,
> p.50) places the
> Colubrariids in the Family Fasciolariidae, and
> references the following
> publication for the Subfamily Colubrariinae:
>
> Beu, A.G. & P.A. Maxwell  "Revision: Fossil and
> Living gastropods related
> to Plesiotriton: Appendix: Genera of Buccinidae
> [Pisaniinae] related to
> Colubraria Schumacher, 1817"  N.Z. Geo. Surv. Paleo.
> Bull. 54:16-58 - 1987
>
> Unfortunately, in the appendix of this paper Beu and
> Maxwell sort out the
> genera typically placed in the family Colubrariidae
> Dall, 1904, and, like
> Abbott (American Seashells, 1974, p. 218), designate
> the Subfamily
> Pisaniinae in the Family Buccinidae as the
> preferential classification for
> Colubraria.  They also propose that some other
> Colubrariidae genera are
> more closely allied with the Cancellariidae.
>
> This being the case, Vaught then does not really
> provide a true reference
> for placing the Colubrariinae in the Family
> Fasciolariidae (at least based
> on the appendix of Beu and Maxwell's paper), and, in
> fact, she may have
> been the first to designate the placement of
> Colubrariinae in the Family
> Fasciolariidae.  Further literature research is
> prudent before making this
> statement definitive.
>
> As you probably know, the classification of
> Colubraria Schumacher, 1817 has
> been in a perpetual state of flux, with differing
> opinions as to a
> taxonomic placement for the genus and related
> genera.  Colubraria have been
> placed in the Cymatiidae (now Ranellidae), the
> Buccinidae, and as you
> mention, elevated to a distinct and seemingly
> homogeneous family,
> Colubrariidae Dall, 1904.  But looks are deceiving.
>
> Kilburn (Sea Shells of Southern Africa, 1982, p.95),
> who uses the Family
> Colubrariidae, writes, "The Colubrariidae is a
> problematic group, once
> referred to the Cymatiidae and now sometimes
> synonymized with
> Buccinidae.  It evidently differs from the latter in
> details of the
> digestive system.  ..."
>
> In a random check of literature in my library, many
> important geographical
> molluscan monographs subsequent to Beu and Maxwell's
> 1987 paper classify
> the Colubraria either in Fasciolariidae (presumably
> based on Vaught), or
> Buccinidae, with only a few still retaining the
> Family Colubrariidae.  In
> the years prior to1987, publications of similar
> scope use either
> Colubrariidae, Cymatiidae, or Buccinidae to classify
> the Colubraria.  Yet
> another taxonomic conundrum.
>
> Highly respected Internet resources such as
> Malacolog (new version 3.1.2),
> the Western Atlantic gastropod database compiled and
> managed by Dr. Gary
> Rosenberg of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural
> Sciences, classify the
> genus Colubraria in the Family Buccinidae, along
> with the related
> Colubrariid genera Minibraria, Monostiolum, and
> Tritonoharpa.  Alternatively, another highly
> respected on-line resource,
> Conchology.be classify the Colubraria in the Family
> Fasciolariidae,
> following  Vaught's classification (Poppe & Goto,
> European Seashells Vol.
> I, p.157).
>
> So classifying Colubraria in the Family
> Fasciolariidae is not fait
> accompli, nor should it be presumed that the use of
> the Family
> Colubrariidae is correct.  I would suggest obtaining
> a copy of the Beu and
> Maxwell paper, which will give you a better
> understanding why some
> researchers opt to place the Colubraria in the
> Family Buccinidae.  Who is
> correct?  I believe there are others who are far
> more qualified to debate
> this issue.
>
> Rich
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> At 02:39 AM 3/12/2002, you wrote:
> >Dear Conch-lers,
> >in a recent publication I have seen that genus
> Colubraria has been placed
> >in family Fasciolariidae.
> >Is this a currently accepted placement?
> >Isn't Colubraria an homogeneous enough group to be
> placed in a family on
> >its own (Colubrariidae)?
> >Is there any publication where this placement was
> formalized?
> >Thanks and best regards,
> >Paolo
> >
> >
> >Paolo Giulio ALBANO
> >Bologna, ITALY
> >E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >Homepage:
> http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/pgalbano/index.htm
>

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