Phil Looks to me as if your Partula IDs are OK, although I am not sure if 8 & 13 are suturalis or affinis? 18 also looks pretty close to radiolata ?? Possibly also No 2 P. hyalina Tahiti 10 P. clara 11 P. lutea Bora bora Unfortunately these are all from specimens in my collection and I do not have much literature to support the names I,ll keep looking Regards Geoff >From: Phil Liff-Grieff <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: unknown land snails from Pacific Islands (?) >Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 00:06:55 -0700 > >Wolfgang, > >You've got a nice grouping of Partula species with one Hawaiian Achatinella >thrown in for good measure. I'm not very good with Partulas but I will >take >a stab at identifying some of these. Are there any Partula experts out >there >who can identify these shells with some certainty? > >A few wild guesses at some of the Pacific island shells on your webpage: > >#'s 6, 6a, 7 & 12 - Partula rosea Broderip, 1832 (?) > >#'s 8 & 13- P. suturalis Pfeiffer, 1855 (?) (variety?) > >#9- P. protea Pease (?) > >#15- A color form of Achatinella stewartii (Green, 1827) also described in >the literature as A. dunkeriPfeiffer, 1855, from Mount Tantalus, Oahu, >Hawaii >(this species has both sinistral and dextral forms- all the ones in my >collection are sinistral so it's nice to see a dextral shell) > >#18- Partula radiolata (Pfeiffer, 1846) (?) > >Lets hear from the experts on the Partulas..... > > >All the best, > >Phil Liff-Grieff >liffgrieff @earthlink.net >La Crescenta, California > >FISCHER WOLFGANG wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > On my web-site I have added 22 pictures of unknown land snails. I think > > they came from Pacific Islands. They are all from an old collection >(Prof. > > Karl Uetz) and are collected from 1900 -1950.With your help I hope it is > > possible to indentifie this land snails. > > > > http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/Unbekannt/Index_unbekannt.html > > > > Next week I add some pictures of Cyclophorus species. > > > > regards > > > > Wolfgang > > > > Wolfgang Fischer > > Institut fuer Pflanzenbau u. Pflanzenzuechtung > > Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur > > Gregor Mendel Str. 33 > > 1180 Wien > > AUSTRIA > > > > http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/index.html > > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > Fax: ++43 1 47654-3342 > > Tel: ++43 1 47654-3307 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.