Date:         Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:32:38 +0000
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From:         David Kirsh <mediashun@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: "Green Shells"
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And Perna viridis--mentioned recently as an invader on the Atlantic coast of
Florida. Also found as dead valves at the Oregon Inlet in North Carolina.

David Kirsh

> From: Kurt Auffenberg <kauffe@FLMNH.UFL.EDU>
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> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:16:43 -0400
> To: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: "Green Shells"
>
> There are a couple green helicinids on Hispaniola...exceedingly rare in
> collections though.....Helicina viridis maybe?  Can't remember genus...
>
> And the Philippine land snail genus of Chloraea (Corasia) has a few
> greenish blue ones (see Compendium pp. 167).....Helicostyla bicolorata, etc.
>
> K