Martin , Give me a day to get this one but i think i know what you have ,
Mark & Peta  Bethke
Hollywood, Florida
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin E. Tremor, Jr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 9:56 PM
Subject: Calling all Cone experts!!!
 
 
>I recently acquired a cone specimen identified as Conus connectens A.
Adams,
>1855 from the Philippines. I first went to the  MANUAL OF THE LIVING
CONIDAE
>by Rockel, Korn and Kohn. Guess what? Conus connectens wasn't even listed
in
>the index, not even as a synonym. I then referred to R. Tucker Abbott's
>COMPENDIUM OF SEA SHELLS and found the species listed there with Conus
>pulchellus, Swainson, 1822 given as a cinnamon. Going back to Rockel, Korn
and
>Kohn's work I find Conus pulchellus listed with Conus circumactus, Iredale,
>1929 given as the valid name for this species.
>
>When looking up Conus circumactus, I find the following "Estival & von
Cosel
>(1986) considered Conus connectens A. Adams, 1855 to be an earlier name for
C.
>circumactus. Coomans et. al. (1985a) considered the type specimen of C.
>connectens indeterminable, but Rockel (1988b) concluded that it is a
specimen
>of C. daucus Hwass from the W. Atlantic. In any case it seems  not to be an
>earlier name for C. circumactus."
>
>I am confused!!  What ever am I to call this dear little cone?
>
>Martin Tremor
>St. Petersburg, FL
>U.S.A.
>