Harry G. Lee

• M.D., F.L.S.
• Researcher at University of Florida

The Plio-Pleistocene Pinecrest beds (Tamiami Fm.) of southern Florida rank amongst the most species-rich assemblages known from the Cenozoic macrofossil record. The tropical to subtropical fauna of the Pinecrest beds includes hundreds of mollusk species and subspecies (perhaps over 1,000), as well as diverse corals, bryozoans, and vertebrates. Some...

Recent fossil shell mining for a new rail line in the Orlando area of Orange County, Florida has uncovered two species of the ellobioid genus Carychium O. F. Müller, 1773 in a bed of freshwater marl from the Lower Pleistocene Nashua Formation. To taxonomically interpret these finds, the well-preserved shells were imaged via high-resolution X-ray to...

The discovery of type material clarifies the status of three iconic and nomenclatorially important terrestrial snail species

The rediscovery in the Copenhagen museum of type material of Buccinum zebra O.F. Müller, 1774 enables us to resolve its status after more than two centuries, with the designation of a lectotype. It confirms the earlier suggestion of Rehder that this taxon is identical to Orthalicus maracaibensis L. Pfeif­fer, 1856, which thus becomes a junior subje...

Newly-reported intermediate helps show a continuum between Semicassis granulata & S. cicatricosa

Range extension of a peripatetic terrestrial snail with unusually anthropochorous habits to New York City

An apparently antique clock featuring a murex shell on its face impelled a search for the origin of the illustration. A historical review of the discovery, transport, and early taxonomy of the marine Mollusca of tropical western America allows insight into this and other iconic shells of the region, whose flora and fauna had a dilatory debut in the...

The validity of the taxon Gastrocopta gracilis (Sterki, 1891) with application of morphometry and statistical analysis

A quantum range extension of a littoral marine gastropod is reported in NE Florida. Implications include habitat alteration and global climate change.

Arcane historical taxonomic and nomenclatural issues addressed for one of the most economically impactful agricultural pest snails

Novel ccurrence of reversed coiling. First in the genus Punctum. Found in Kentucky

Necrology of a prominent malacologist.

The horse conch of the southeastern United States and eastern Mexico has been a subject of intermittent nomenclatural controversy: Fasciolaria papillosa G.B. Sowerby I, 1825 vs. Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840. The original description of F. papillosa is very brief and is judged by some to be inadequate; no illustration or locality is provided, a...

In response to growing recognition that global biodiversity is increasingly threatened by human depredation and neglectful oversight on numerous fronts, many governments and treaty organizations have formulated rules and regulations to help identify and protect endangered species from further losses. As collectors and students of Mollusca, one of t...

Obituary of American malacologist

This is an account of the terrestrial mollusks found in drifted debris along the Paint Rock River in NE Alabama. Over 100 species were identified. Potential application of this technique in future investigations is analyzed.

Eleven new records of reverse chirality are recorded for the North American land snail family Polygyridae (Eupulmonata: Stylommatophora). Combined with earlier published reviews (Lee, 2011, 2012), a total of 15 of the 18 genera and 27 of the 140 species occurring in the eastern USA are now known. Rather than some other predisposing biological attri...

Eleven new records of reverse chirality are recorded for the North American land snail family Polygyridae (Eupulmonata: Stylommatophora). Combined with earlier published reviews (Lee, 2011, 2012), a total of 15 of the 18 genera and 27 of the 140 species occurring in the eastern USA are now known. Rather than some other predisposing biological attri...

We have closely examined the micromollusks of a circumscribed exposure of the upper Pliocene Lower Pinecrest beds (Tamiami Fm.) in Sarasota, Florida and found a level of species richness exceeding that of any previously elucidated Plio-Pleistocene assemblage in the region. Using a constituent taxonomic unit, the Tornidae, we demonstrate the diversi...

Several obscure and un-named marine micromollusks from the Pinecrest beds of the Tamiami Formation are presented, many for the first time.

Scrutiny of the micromollusk moiety of a circumscribed exposure of the Pinecrest shell beds in SW Florida revealed an unprecedented level of species richness. Implications of this analysis affect our understanding of evolutionary trends in the Cenozoic and Quaternary of the western Atlantic marine Mollusca.

The intersection of mollusk shells and productions of creatures assigned to other phyla was imprinted in my mind early on. As a college freshman, I found several specimens of an unfamiliar ~ 5 mm snail living on rocks at the bottom of a brook tributary of the Hoosic River in Williamstown, MA. Only after a few days had passed, when I viewed them und...

A biography of a prodigious amateur malacologist

The Tornidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) found in the upper Pliocene of Sarasota Co., Florida constituted were surprisingly species-rich. Th number of species equals that found in shallow waters around the entire state today.

The poorly-understood marine gastropod Cerithiopsis greenii is redescribed with special attention to the morphology of its protoconch and early teleoconch.

A survey of the shell-bearing land snails of the Calusa Shell Mound area of Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Lee County, Florida is reported. I collected nearly 1000 shells of 31 species, which are identified and correlated with occurrences reported in the literature and collections of three major natural history museums with...

A key to the distinction among species of the marine snail genus Cerithiopsidae in the western Atlantic

Report of an electronic database of original descriptions of taxa proposes in the family Triphoridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a hyperlink to the entire work

A new look at a rissoinid (Mollusca: Gastropoda) previously thought to be extinct.

Gastropod coiling is examined in a group of aquatic prosobranchs, the genus Lanstes. The history of its nomenclature and the concept of hyperstrophy are examined closely.

The protoconch and the early teleoconch whorls of the brownish species of Cerithiopsis from the Caribbean and adjacent regions are studied. With the information compiled in the present work, the diagnosis of a particular specimen may be resolved by comparison with the selected characters of the 24 species presented.

The protoconch and the early teleoconch whorls of the banded species of Cerithiopsis from the Caribbean and adjacent regions are studied. With the information compiled in the present work, the diagnosis of a particular specimen may be resolved by comparison with the selected characters of the species presented. Introduction In a recent paper, Rolán...

An analysis of microhabitat preference of small terrestrial snails

mutant reversal of coil in terrestrial pulmonate snails

Book review: Marine shells of Antigua & Barbuda

A comparatively small and many ribbed Americardia living from Bermuda, off Florida to Caribbean Panama and Brazil is described and named after J.R.H. (Jack) Lightbourn. The new species has more anterior ribs and reaches a significantly smaller size than the two other Recent western Atlantic spe-cies. It also lives in deeper water, particularly in t...

The nomenclatorial and taxonomic vagaries involved in the genus Trodopsis are reviewed and examined

Aspects of human interactions with the Sacred Chank, Turbinella pyrum (Linnaeus, 1758) including its conchology are discussed

An insect attaches empty land snail shells to his integument. Also, what is believed to be the first bona fide record for the snail Punctum pygmaeum is reported.

The rarity of mutant chiral reversal in terrestrial snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and a account of such discoveries.

Reverse-coiling (sinistrality) in the shells of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) was once believed to be impossible, but in the last few decades over involving several species have been collected. An inventory of these mutant specimens and a discussion of the biological underpinnings of such teratology are presented herein.

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A favorable review of the book titled "Shells" by Philippe Bouchet and Gilles Mermet,

Persististrombus gen. nov. is created to accommodate a number of fossil and one Recent species which form a distinct lineage starting in Early Oligocene of Europe with Strombus radix Brongniart, 1823, via the Oligocene to early Miocene S. bonellii sensu stricto Brongniart, 1823 and a number of Caribbean extinct species to the Recent Panamic faunal...

New records, new species of marine mollusks from offshore >Louisiana

New and unusual marine mollusks from offshore Louisiana are reported; many figured

New offshore mollusks from the NW Gulf of Mexico

A favorable review of Bahamian Seashells: a Thousand Species from Abaco, Bahamas by Colin Redfern.

A favorable review of Bernard Tursch and Dietmar Greifeneder, Oliva Shells The genus Oliva and the Species problem.

A review of the monograph A conchological iconography [delivery 3] The family Ficidae by Marcel Verhaeghe and Guido T. Poppe.

Review of the monograph A conchological iconography [volume(?) 2] The family Strombidae.

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Terebra imitatrix new species is described from northern Brazil and compared to morphologically similar species of Hastula

A new genus and species of stylommatophoran land snail is described from northeast Florida, USA.

Biographical vignettes of several amateur malacologists working in the American South before and after the Civil War.

A series of 25 field stations were established from which 4000 snails were collected. These snail hosts serve as hosts of both of the endemic schistosome species (Schistosoma haematobium from Bulinus truncatus, Bu. abyssinicus, Bu. sericinus, and Bu. forskalii; and S. mansoni from Biomphalaria pfeifferi) and a number of possible trematode antagonis...

The effectiveness of chemotherapy in human schistosomiasis varies from one area to another, and limited data from experimentally infected animals suggest inherent differences in the susceptibility of certain parasites to drugs. In the present study, groups of mice infected with each of several geographic strains of Schistosoma mansoni were treated...

Adult Schistosoma mansoni were maintained in vitro in medium consisting of 90% Medium No. 199 and 10% calf serum. Compounds were assayed for their ability to kill adults (LD50), and their ability to inhibit oviposition (OID50). The ability of compounds to prevent the completion of embryonic maturation (EMID50) was tested on eggs laid in vitro and s...