>From:    Kurt Auffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Most named mollusk
>
>Harry is in the right ballpark.  It's a freshwater bivalve.  Come on, Tom
>Watters.
>
>Kurt
>
>At 07:23 AM 6/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dear L'ers,
>>
>>We FW collectors stand in awe of Isaac Lea (1792-1886), who provided us
>>with no less than 75 names for various manifestations of Elliptio
>>complanata (Lightfoot, 1786).  Other authorities combined for only 20 more
>>(total synonyms about 95).  This may prove a bit on the "lumpy" side once
>>the gel-jockies provide molecular taxonomic insights, but you may see this
>>testimony to redundancy in Johnson, R. I., 1970  The systematics and
>>zoogeography of the Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the southern Atlantic
>>slpe region. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 140 (6): 263-449. Nov. 27.
>>
>>Harry
999 07:28:49 PDT
>From:    milan peternel <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Most named mollusk
>
>>From: Kurt Auffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Most named mollusk
>
>Kurt wrote:
>But, I'll defer to your obvious mastery of the topic and move onto something
>more important to my day to day
>existance .....Now, who knows the most-named creature?

Well it has to be those crazy French bastards and all of thier names for
Anodtona cynea

Kevin

Kevin S. Cummings
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