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From: "Andrew Grebneff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Molluscan origins... corals


>
> MANDATORY MOLLUSCAN CONTENT:
> When I was collecting on the depauperated reefs of southern Viti Levu
> (Fiji) I collected a small Melanella from an encrusting deep red hard
> "soft" coral on the underside of a coral boulder. Does anyone know if
> any eulimids parasitize any other prey than echinoderms? I do know of
> one species (can't remember which) which is not echinoderm-dependent,
> but can't remember the host either.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff

According to Anders Warén  (A generic revision of the family Eulimidae,
Suppl. 13 J. Moll. Stud., 1983: page 21) Scalenostoma is associated with
stone corals (and therefore perhaps not a eulimid).

Happy holidays,

Marien
www.mollus.nl