Dear all,
When I emailed the list-serve, especially Eduardo Moreiro, last week about
the deepwater nerite:
"Dear Eduardo,
Que e isto?????"
I honestly thought E. M., a renowned man of humor, was treating us all to
one of those Audubon-on-Rafinesque ruses (see Andy Rindsberg's report of
the fictitious trivalve). If I were more circumspect, I could have
concealed my ignorance of this deepwater "orphan" Neritoidean. All that
was necessary was to go to my own club's homepage (vide infra) and link to
Gary Rosenberg's Malacolog 2.0 (shortcut version:
<gopher://erato.acnatsci.org/>), wherein there is as complete an inventory
of W. Atlantic marine mollusks as possible (and more extensive than
imaginable). After a few keystrokes I was able to retrieve:
"Bathynerita naticoidea Clarke, 1989 Neritidae
Bathynerita naticoidea Clarke, 1989
Depth: 541-722 m (live 541-576 m) Size: 11.6 mm
Range: 27.8-27.68 N, 91.54-91.51 W
Distribution: LA ;
References: Clarke (1989) dl; Waren & Bouchet (1993) DLNSEWM."
I refined the entry:
Found in abbreviations legend: "LA" = Louisiana
Not found in abbreviations legend: "dl;" suspect it is "DL" (= deepest;
deepest live specimen)
Not found in bibliography: Clarke, A. H., 1989. New mollusks from undersea
oil seep sites off Louisiana Malacology Data Net 2: 122-134.
Found in bibliography: Warén, A. and P. Bouchet, 1993. New records,
species, genera, and a new fanily of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and
hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica
Scripta 22: 1-90.
Found in abbreviations legend:
D = deepest record of species
L = deepest record alive
N = northernmost record
S = southernmost record
E = easternmost record
W = westernmost record
M = maximum size record
A Conch-L thread could have been focussed in a fraction of the time it took
our electronic symposium to make its revelations. Thanks to José Leal and
Eduardo Moreira for giving direction, and shame on the modest Gary
Rosenberg for not sufficiently touting his most utilitarian resource!
Harry
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