Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck
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Dear Ross Mayhew,                     Innsbruck, 5. 4. 1998
 
as I don't know if my e-mail arrived you, I am sending you a second new
one.
It seems you will bei specialised in Pecten too. Can you guess how
Placopecten magellanicus cam into the Mediterranean. near Mazzaro
del Vallo (Trapani, Sicilia). Mazzaro is one of th largest fisher-harbours in
Itlaly. So I think that fishermen eventually have lost it. Maybe ? This  
specimen I have from the collection Pietro Parenzan, a well known
malacologist of Taranto and author of some interesting books of the
Mediterranean. I got this complete specimen on 21. 3. 1987. Another half shell of Placopecten magellanicus I've got from another collector, some days
before, but from the same origine:
Rosa di Mazzaro del Vallo, Banchi di Lampedusa, 137 m, 46 miles from the
Tunesian coast, collected 09. 1976.
Can you think about this? Please let me have your notes. Maybei you
can send me Placopecten magellanicus from your zone for the museum
to compare them, if possible two or three specimen.
Thank you best
yours Helmut