Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:35:12 -0700
Reply-To:     BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [CONCH-L] Freshwater barnacle
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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I see SnailBoi is up to his antics again.

Soooo Andrew, is the Vitta a new nickname for a Vanagon? Seems
appropriate that it can be found in PEACE River. Waterboxer drips are
utterly polluted with non-phospate coolant. I found a colony of them
living in San Francisco. Most were reclivating around the banks with
their headgaskets weeping.

BenT
http://members.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:00:57 +1200, Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> >Seems to me Vitta usnea (Roeding, 1798), better known as Vitta reclivata
> >(Say), might occur in estuaries.
> >Henk K. Mienis
>
> Funny, in 1990 I found a colony of these flourishing in a tributary
> of the Peace River, not too far from Shell Ck, Charlotte Co, Florida.
> The water is utterly fresh (pollution aside) anf with a good flow.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
>