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>From: "Don Robertson" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Andrew Grebneff" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: New giant Antarctic snails
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>Hi Andrew
>
>a number of pieces of information seem to have been merged - to
>perhaps give a wrong impression. NIWA's media release was titled
>'Giant sea creatures discovered in Antarctica' which included a
>comment from Stefano Schiaparelli saying that he was certain we had
>found a number of new species of molluscs. We did not collect any
>gigantic snails but Stefano reported a new record of a large species
>(~ 5 cm) of gastropod /Miomelon turnerae/ in one of the weekly
>science blogs. This species is so far apparently only known from the
>Magellan Strait and this would be a new record for the Ross Sea
>region.
>
>Let me know if you need any more info.
>Cheers
>Don
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