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Subject:Re: [CONCH-L] Freshwater barnacle
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:00:57 +1200

>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.
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
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