Keep 'em coming, Andrew! NVC for darn sure, but just reading about you
observing landsnails in puddles is entertainment enough!
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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
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> � Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
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