Hi,

Wellcomed from an landshell collector from Innsbruck in Austria. If you
like a comparison
with some  landshells from my zones to yours I can send you some nice
landshells from
Europe including some micros. To have a complete landhshell-collection you
should
collect also microshells as different Vertiginidae, Valloniidae, Punctidae,
etc. You
can take fine earth and leaf litter to sort them out. Otherwise you can
find the larger
species nearly anywhere. Good luck for collecting and classifying.
with best shelling greetings and hoping to hear from you again as soon as
possible,
Please contact me under my private e-mail too. At my website you can find
some
informations on Tyrolean landshells.
Helmut from Innsbruck (addresses below)

Helmut "Helix" Nisters
private:
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.netwing.at/nisters
office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at


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> Hi!  My name is Sharon Czarnecki.  I just subscribed to the CONCH-L
listserv &
> am posting my brief intro as requested.  It will be quite brief as I am a
rank
> novice and I know absolutely nothing about shells!  I am, however, very
> interested in learning all that I can about land snails native to my
region
> (North Alabama).  Several months ago I began collecting land snails after
> being introduced to them by a naturalist who led a Sierra Club hike.  He
> guided me to the North Alabama Shell Club and one of the members of the
club
> recommended your listserv.  I have collected several snails from one
> particular mountain in the area.  My naturalist friend helped me identify
some
> of them; then someone emailed our state malacologist who offered to
identify
> everything I had and send me a photocopy of a beginner's level land snail
> guide.  I am thrilled by his generous offer, as I have searched
extensively
> for land snail reference guides for my region and cannot find anything in
> print and very little info. on-line.  Actually, I've checked out archives
from
> this listserv and found some of the best information about land snails.
I did
> manage to order a second-hand copy of Abbott's Compendium of Landshells
but am
> afraid it will be a bit too technical for me.  Anyway, I'm looking
forward to
> learning and collecting!
>
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