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Leal Bruce Neville ed by the University of Georgia) at: [email protected] Emilio Garcia Harry G. Lee G. Thomas Watters John Wolff Instructions for joining Conch-L are on the COA web site. March 2014 American Conchologist Page 3 In This Issue José Leal, President Conchologists of America (COA) COA Nominating Committee report ----------------------- 3 Dear José: Walter’s story: Walter Paine donates life-long shell collection to COA by Edward and Gayle Nieburger ----- 4 A nominating committee was constituted by COA Vice-President Harry G. Lee MD at the 2013 Sara- Some of the Walter Paine shells donated to the sota COA convention and consists of Alan Gettle- COA auction --------------------------------------------------- 10 man, Chair, of Florida, Lucy Clampit of Texas, and Everett Long of North Carolina. The following indi- The protoconch and early teleoconch whorls of Cerithiopsis greenii (C. B. Adams, 1839) viduals were contacted by members of the committee (Mollusca, Cerithiopsidae) by Marlo F. Krisberg and have agreed to be nominated for COA elected of- and Harry G. Lee --------------------------------------------- 12 fices to be voted upon at the 2014 Wilmington, North Carolina COA Convention: Neptunea Award ---------------------------------------------- 17 President, José Leal, PhD Vice-President, Harry G. Lee, MD Dealer Directory ---------------------------------------------- 18 Treasurer, Steven Coker In Memoriam -------------------------------------------------- 20 Secretary, Phyllis Gray Trustee, Bill Lyons 2014 COA Convention: A North Carolina WHELKome by Jeannette Tysor & Ed Shuller --------- 22 We are pleased the slate offered are talented and ded- It happened again! by Paul Kanner ---------------------- 25 icated individuals who are already serving as COA Officers, and represents considerable management 34th Astronaut Trail Shell Club Seashell Festival and conchological experience. 11-12 Jan 2014 ------------------------------------------------- 26 Thank you. 2014 Broward Shell Show by Nancy Galdo -------------- 28 Sincerely, Sarasota Shell Club Shell Show 14-16 Feb 2014 -------- 30 Alan Gettleman, Chair St. Petersburg Shell Club Shell Show 22-23 Feb 2014 ------------------------------------------------- 31 Front Cover: Ficus ventricosa (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825) The Hebrew Volute Voluta ebraea Linnaeus, 1758 on Isla Gubernadora, Panama. Sometimes called the Martin E. Tremor, Jr. ---------------------------------------- 32 swollen fig shell, this distinctive species is found from the Pacific coast of Mexico to Peru. Fossil specimens Size Matters! II by Moshe Erlendur Okon -------------- 34 of a Ficus ventricosa-like fig shell have been found as far back as the late Oligocene (33.9-23 mya) in the Gatun Lake area of Panama.* Photograph courtesy of Simon’s Speciality Shells, Ltd (http://www.simons- specimen-shells.com/. Simon says the photo was taken at night as the F. ventricosa ‘popped’ out of the sand as the tide was turning. Back Cover: Freshwater gastropods by Nuimal Bahar. This is a group often overlooked by collectors, and yet there are plenty of interesting species to be found in the world’s freshwater streams, lakes, and rivers. * Woodring, W.P. 1957. Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and Adjoining Parts of Panama, Geological Survey Professional Paper 306-A, US Printing Office, Wash. D.C. Page 4 American Conchologist Vol. 42, No. 1 WALTER’S STORY WALTER PAINE DONATES LIFE-LONG SHELL COLLECTION TO COA By Edward and Gayle Nieburger With immeasurable help from Editor-in-chief W. C. Paine At the end of a mile long dirt road on the side of a hill sits a large white house surrounded by over three hun- dred acres of conserved land teeming with wildlife that rec- ognize this area as a safe haven. 213 Palmer Road, Enfield, is located in Grafton County, New Hampshire, about fifty miles north of Concord, the state capital. Enfield was named in 1761 by settlers from Enfield, Connecticut, and became the site of a Shaker Community in the early 1800’s. It is the heart of the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Ver- mont, and has benefitted from the fast moving waters of the Mascoma River. The house was built in 1803 by Benjamin Choate and his wife Mehitable, who lie nearby under a dou- ble headstone in a small well-kept graveyard. For the last forty years Walter Cabot Paine and his wife Barbara have treasured this location and protected its wildlife inhabitants.
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    Vol. 397: 7–10, 2009 MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Published December 17 doi: 10.3354/meps08066 Mar Ecol Prog Ser Contribution to the Theme Section ‘Conservation and management of deep-sea corals and coral reefs’ OPENPEN ACCESSCCESS Influence of Frederick (Ted) M. Bayer on deep-water octocoral research Stephen D. Cairns* Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20560, USA ABSTRACT: The impact of Ted Bayer’s research on octocorals was extraordinary and his studies will long be used by any student of the group Octocorallia. He leaves behind a legacy of 107 published papers on octocorals, in which he newly described 4 families, 1 subfamily, 48 genera, 2 subgenera, 186 species, and 10 subspecies. An annotated list of his new taxa and all of his manuscripts (including 9 unpublished) are given in an electronic supplement. Although he published on most octocoral families, his favorite groups were the deep-water calcaxonian families from the western Atlantic, central Pacific, and Antarctic; he was also an expert on the precious coral family Coralliidae. He facilitated the study of the subclass by publishing classifications of the higher taxa, an illustrated trilingual glossary of morpho- logical terms, a key to all genera (exclusive of the Pennatulacea), and an annotated bibliography of the literature of the group. He was the first to use scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of sclerites to describe species, and perfected that technique in the use of SEM stereo pairs. He also made a sig- nificant contribution to advances in the knowledge of octocoral axial microstructure, proving that all gorgoniids have a diagnostic type of axial mineralogy.