Date:         Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:23:01 -0500
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From:         "Harry G. Lee" <shells@HGLEE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Neritidae westcoast of Florida
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Dear Henk et al.,

Port Everglades is in Broward Co., FL, and the locality is plausible.
St. Joseph Bay is in Gulf Co. (panhandle), FL, and I believe these
Nerita records are very important but in need of confirmation.

Thanks,
Harry


At 12:26 PM 1/10/2007, you wrote:
>Dear Conchlers,
>
>Here are the data of samples belonging to the Neritidae from West
>Florida, which were once in my collection. Most of them are now in
>the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam.
>
>Nerita (Theliostyla) fulgurans Gmelin, 1971
>Port Everglades, leg. J. Plaatsman, July 1961 (specimens with same
>data also in the collection of the Tel Aviv University).
>St. Joseph Bay, leg. N.D. Pashall, 11 August 1977.
>
>Nerita (Ritena) versicolor Gmelin, 1791
>Port Everglades, leg. J. Plaatsman, July 1961
>St. Joseph Bay, leg. N.D. Pashall, 11 August 1977.
>
>Vitta usnea (Roeding, 1798) (= reclivata)
>Panama City, leg. H. & M. Minzak, Oct. 1964
>Spring Creek on the Gulf State Road # 365, South Tallahassee leg. F. Hausman
>Tampa, leg. W.J. Clench, before 1947
>Tampa bay, leg. H. & M. Minzak, January 1965; same locality leg. PJW
>Clover 1967
>Water Dept. Spring, Henderson St., Tampa, leg. R.T.Abbott, 28 January 1970
>Apalachicola River, leg. G.D. Gordon, 17 February 1980
>
>Vitta clenchi (Russell)
>Water Dept. Spring, Henderson St., Tampa, leg. R.T.Abbott, 28 January 1970
>
>An important paper dealing with the four Nerita species living in Florida is:
>Kolipinski, M.C., 1964. The life history, growth, and ecology of
>four intertidal gastropods (genus Nerita) of Southeast Florida. 131
>pp. P.D.-thesis University of Miami.
>Copies of it were available from: University Microfilms Inc., Ann
>Arbor, Michigan. (order code: 65-740)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Henk K. Mienis

Harry G. Lee, M. D.
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