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Date:         Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:23:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: RES: [CONCH-L] Snails in odd places
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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Keep 'em coming, Andrew! NVC for darn sure, but just reading about you observing landsnails in puddles is entertainment enough! -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR

On 2/25/2008 4:10 PM Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> A malacologist told me he had collected "live Siphonaria and > Onchidella from 1000 m living on algal holdfasts with climax bathyal > algae-eating limpet colonies". This says something about the limits > of a species' ability to live successfully; it also says something > about the larvae of that species, and they conditions in which they > settle as opposed to that in which they COULD live if they settled > outside the normal preferences. > > I have also observed behavior of the introduced landsnail Candidula > intersecta when coming across a puddle in a depression on the surface > of limestone blocks after rain: the snails just crawl throught the > puddles. > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin > New Zealand > Fossil preparator > Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut > ‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University > "There is water at the bottom of the ocean" - Talking Heads


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