Liguus Web Site Information

Site writer and keeper: Emilio Jorge Power

Shells (unless noted) are from the collection of : Emilio Jorge Power

Photos were taken by : Emilio Jorge Power

Information sources : Refer to the bibliography page

Acknowledgments : Special thanks to Archie Jones

Acknowledgments :Special thanks to the
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
and Mr. Adam J. Baldinger,
Curatorial Associate in Malacology at MCZ,
for the loan of selected specimens.

Acknowledgments : Special thanks to all others
who were kind enough to give advice

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This is not a commercial site. The site is intended as a reference and collectors
catalog of the Liguus. The Florida Liguus "groupings" are as originally defined by Pilsbry (with minor modifications). The Cuban and Hispaniola Liguus groupings are based on what "fragmented" information I have been able to assemble, but does reflect the original nomen/year/author (synonyms, where known, will be noted). Form and varietal names are not presently allowed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). These form and varietal names, however, are still in common use by collectors and shell dealers to differentiate populations, colonies and color patterns.

If anyone wants to contribute information related to the Liguus
or has ANY corrections to that information presently shown PLEASE let me know.

The site had been designed to conserve bandwidth, not too fancy,photos compressed as much as possible etc.

The target(like a needle in a haystack)was less than 1Mb of server memory and a maximum page(including photos) loading time of 45 seconds per page (during peak traffic hours). Needless to say we are now at a memory capacity of 25MB in order to accomodate site growth in photos and information. I suppose I blew the target, HA!

I have tested it with several browsers and platforms (PC and Mac), looks OK except you may have to be in a high color/hi res setting for best photo viewing.

It is optimized for Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher.

Photo pages are used, instead of thumbnail links, in order to view the related forms as a group.

Error messages to those links not yet activated have been eliminated thanks to the constructive suggestions of Linda Koestel. The future links are now displayed in drab or black color without the link highlight feature (underlined). Sorry for any frustrations caused by previous error messages. Hopefully these will be full working links soon as the site progresses. Sorry for the snail pace but one must be careful in what one publishes.

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site as long as the information copied/printed is not used for
commercial or monetary gain.
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