Conch is so yummm.... yum, Snailboi.

Methinks you've sent this to the wrong List. Maybe you want to send this
 to the Normally Aspirated diesel Westy Vanagon List. They are more familiar
with snails there.

Cheers,

BenT

On 2/25/08, Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> 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
>