Nora:
 
        Daniel Geiger's Haliotidae paper is 1998 rather than 1988 (see
Nautilus 111(3):85-116).  Also, he will be completing his PhD across the
street at USC this summer using a total cladistic analysis of the family so
stay tuned for more top notch papers from Dan.  He and I have completed a
review of fossil abalone for Journal of Paleontology that may be out in
September or November as well.
        The Allan Hancock Foundation of USC published quite a few monographs
in the 50's and 60's on the cruises of the R/V VELERO III & IV, which
produced an enormous amount of invertebrate and vertebrate marine material
(much of which is now at LACM).  Unfortunately, publications irregularly
appear any more.  Soot-Ryen's mytilid monograph is out-of-print.
 
Later.
 
Aloha,
 
Lindsey Groves
 
 
At 12:48 PM 3/31/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks Kim, Harry and Dan for the excellent leads on Haliotidae and Mytlidae.
>Against all odds our University libaray has Nautilus, but I have not found the
>paper on Haliotidae yet.  It's definitely from 1988?  I'll give it another
look.
>Also, is the Soot-Ryen reference in a journal called "Allan Hancock
Expeditions".
>I've never heard of that one.  It's been a long time since I scrounged for
>journals at a University library.  Time to roll up the sleeves....
>
>Harry G. Lee, MD wrote:
>
>> Dear Nora,
>>
>> There isn't an inclusive picture book on the abalones, but:
>>
>> Geiger, D. L. 1998.  Recent genera and species of the family Haliotidae
>> Rafinesque, 1815 (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda).  Nautilus 111(3): 85-116. May
>> 26. provides a list of all Recent generic and trivial names (with valid taxa
>> in boldface) along with detailed discussions of taxonomic vagaries,
>> geographical indices by species, B & W photographs of infrequently
>> illustrated taxa, and a fine bibliography.  If you don't receive this
>> benchmark journal, consider doing so.  I have been a Nautilus subscriber
>> since 1955 and consider it essential to my collecting enterprise.  Contact
>> Jose Leal for further info <[log in to unmask]>.
>>
>> A fine treatment on the Mytilidae is:
>>
>> Soot-Ryen, T. 1955.  A report on the family Mytilidae (Pelecypoda). Allan
>> Hancock Expeditions 20(1): 1-174 + 10 pls. incl. 18 text fig's. Nov. 10.
>> This work treats all west American mytilids and gives a key for all Recent
>> genera.
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> At 09:56 AM 3/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>> >Thanks to those who helped me with my shell ID. No ideas on my mussels
>> >though.  Can anyone tell me of a good book for worldwide mussels (Mytilidae)
>> >and one on Abalones?
>> >Nora Bryan
>> >Calgary, Alberta
>> >CANADA
>> >
>> >NORA BRYAN wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a couple of shells in my collection that I just cannot ID.
>> >> Perhaps some of you could point me in a possible direction (when I have
>> >> finally obtained all the shell books I will need I won't be bugging you
>> >> all with this basic stuff):
>> >>
>> >> 1.  This one is large (about 4" long) and looks like a member of the
>> >> Melongenidae - it looks most like a picture of Volema tuba in the
>> >> Eisenberg book.  The outer surface is fairly smooth and cream colour
>> >> with some pale brownish colouration as well.  The interior is pink.  Is
>> >> there any other shell this could be besides V. tuba?  I don't know it's
>> >> provenance.
>> >> 2. I have two others that look very similar to the above, only they are
>> >> smaller, maybe 2", paler and they may have come from Florida (in a box
>> >> of unidentified shells).
>> >> 3.  A bivalve that looks like it belongs in Mytilidae - it is about 2"
>> >> long and has a fairly typical shape (like M. edulis) but it has a pale
>> >> golden periostracum over a white shell. There is very little
>> >> irridescence on the inside It is fairly thin.  Again, I don't know where
>> >> it is from.
>> >> Maybe some more serious collectors wonder why I bother with shells of
>> >> unknown provenanace, but my collection is still small, and I hate to
>> >> discard nice-looking shells.  I'd rather face the challenge of trying to
>> >> figure them out.  Maybe over time they can be replaced with others that
>> >> have more complete labelling.
>> >> Thanks in advance for any leads you might pass on.
>> >> Nora Bryan
>> >> Calgary, Alberta
>> >> CANADA
>> >
>> Harry G. Lee
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