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HERR THEODOR FUCHS of Vienna has pointed out some important mistakes in the abstracts of his memoir in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 528. In view of remedying these regrettable errors some revised extracts are here given. At p. 528, line 32, the passage should read thus:—“The genus Neritina at present shows a predilection for islands. Thus from Tahiti alone Reeve gives 8 species, and 11 from the Sandwich Islands; from the Philippines there are 39, and 40 from New Caledonia alone, according to Gassies. Further, according to Kobelt there are 11 in the Mediterranean; and, according to Reeve, 7 in the West Indies, and 10 in Central America. The great continental areas are strangely poor in Neritinæ. In North America the genus seems to be wanting, since the two or three known species are found only in the borderlands on the south. The genus Melanopsis has a very peculiar distribution. Twenty species, nearly all strongly ornamented, belong to the Mediterranean. This genus is wanting in Africa, East India, the Malay Islands, Australia, and the whole of America; but it occurs quite locally, with 19 species, in New Caledonia; and 2 species are found in New Zealand.”
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J., T. On the Asiatic Alliances of the Fauna of the Congenian Deposits of South-Eastern Europe. Nature 22, 460 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022460b0
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