Spixia
New taxa (24): Spixia
06-10-2010 16:20
Back in Leiden, one of
the first things I did is to check the new journal
arrivals in the library. As long as journals appear
on paper, it is a great joy to physically browse
through them and to find interesting publications.
One of them is a paper on a new species of Spixia, S. cuezzae, by Eugenia Salas Oroño. It was found in Argentina, Prov. Córdoba, Punilla Dept., road from Capilla del Monte to San Marcos Sierras, 944 m. Holotype IML 15284.
The new species is described in the context of a revision of the genus, for which Eugenia has been doing much work during the past years. One characteristic of this group is the fine micro-sculpture on the whorls.
She will defend her Ph.D. thesis soon I guess.
Reference:
Salas Oroño, E., 2010. A new species of Spixia from Argentina (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostominae). - Journal of Conchology 40: 305-313.
One of them is a paper on a new species of Spixia, S. cuezzae, by Eugenia Salas Oroño. It was found in Argentina, Prov. Córdoba, Punilla Dept., road from Capilla del Monte to San Marcos Sierras, 944 m. Holotype IML 15284.
The new species is described in the context of a revision of the genus, for which Eugenia has been doing much work during the past years. One characteristic of this group is the fine micro-sculpture on the whorls.
She will defend her Ph.D. thesis soon I guess.
Reference:
Salas Oroño, E., 2010. A new species of Spixia from Argentina (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostominae). - Journal of Conchology 40: 305-313.
Meeting a soulsister
07-02-2008 13:58
Today is one of those days that you will memorize for
a long time, because it is not so often that you meet
someone with whom you share your passion for the same
group of snails. I had the long-expected meeting with
Eugenia Salas Oroño, a young Argentinan malacologist.
We had been in email contact over the past months, after her publication on Spixia (*).
Spixia pyriformis
(Pilsbry, 1901). Photo: E. Salas Oroño
It soon became clear to me that she is a student of Gabriela Cuezzo at the University of Tucumán. Working on her Ph.D., we exchanged some emails when she announced to have received a German fellowship for a 3 months stay, that would bring her to Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich. Although we initially agreed to meet in Cologne, she decided to spend some free days in Amsterdam and eventually we met there.
The hours filled up very easily, talking about her research, visit to Germany and malacology in Argentina. One of the remarkable observations was that the majority of Latin American land snail malacologists is women. Just a matter of coincidence or is there also a cultural thing?
Time for departure became far too quickly, but I hope that it will be possible to reunion. All the best, Eugenia!
* Reference:
Salas Oroño, E. (2007). Taxonomic review of the Spixia pyriformis species complex (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Odontostominae). Zootaxa, 1498, 1-25.
We had been in email contact over the past months, after her publication on Spixia (*).
Spixia pyriformis
(Pilsbry, 1901). Photo: E. Salas Oroño
It soon became clear to me that she is a student of Gabriela Cuezzo at the University of Tucumán. Working on her Ph.D., we exchanged some emails when she announced to have received a German fellowship for a 3 months stay, that would bring her to Frankfurt, Berlin and Munich. Although we initially agreed to meet in Cologne, she decided to spend some free days in Amsterdam and eventually we met there.
The hours filled up very easily, talking about her research, visit to Germany and malacology in Argentina. One of the remarkable observations was that the majority of Latin American land snail malacologists is women. Just a matter of coincidence or is there also a cultural thing?
Time for departure became far too quickly, but I hope that it will be possible to reunion. All the best, Eugenia!
* Reference:
Salas Oroño, E. (2007). Taxonomic review of the Spixia pyriformis species complex (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Odontostominae). Zootaxa, 1498, 1-25.