Hi, Harry!
Wow! Those little critters can really move. It reminds me of one of our Korean land shell species, Bekkochlamys subrejecta, that is very active and crawls rapidly, although maybe not as fast as your champions. While collecting with my grandson, I came across a species of B. subrejecta and picked it up. It immediately tried to escape while I was corfirming the identification. My grandson distracted me for a few seconds, and that's all it took for the little active one to crawl out of my hand and drop down into a pile of brush. "Did you lose your snail, Poppie?' said my grandson. "Yes", I replied "but I got the ID." The big difference between your species and mine is that mine can't jump.
All the best from Korea!
Ron Noseworthy
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On Mon, 6/25/18, Harry Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [CONCH-L] Flick: Ovachlamys fulgens (Gude, 1900), the "Jumping Snail"
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Received: Monday, June 25, 2018, 6:32 AM
Dear
Listers,
A few of you may recall my posting observations on
the rather
biodiverse land snail fauna of my back yard.
During my residence on this property (1974 to
present), I have
seen the species count rise and change, e.g.,
<https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0111A&L=CONCH-L&P=R4001&Y=hglee2%40mindspring.com>,
<https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0111D&L=CONCH-L&P=R4417&Y=hglee2%40mindspring.com>,
and the more recent discovery of non-native snails
such as Bradybaena
similaris (Ferussac, 1821) [2003],
Lamellaxis micrus
(d'Orbiigny, 1835) [2005], Allopeas
mauritianum (L.
Pfeiffer, 1852) [2007], and Ovachlamys
fulgens (Gude,
1900) [2013].
Initially 2-3* of 27 were non-native, but now
it's 7-8* of 35
species, and many of the native taxa from the early
days have
essentially disappeared. Cumulative species counts
can be
deceptive.
Anyway, the last introduction is today's topic.
It was apparent
from my first encounter that this guy behaved
differently from
your (or my for that matter) average snail. Not only
could it
outpace any other member of the molluscan community
in which it
had inserted itself, it could jump - really jump. By
rough
estimate its capacity (to scale) to do so was 5-10
times mine -
at my prime!
Today colleague and jaxshells.org webmaster Bill
Frank captured
this remarkable behavior and uploaded it to
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzpv-QAvPk&feature=youtu.be>.
Don't let anyone tell you all snails are
sluggish!
* Even today, the zoogeographic origin of the Carrot
Glass, Dryachhoa
dauca Thompson and Lee, 1981, is shrouded in
mystery.
Harry
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