Hi, everyone!
Here's my story of mollusk frustration.
For about twelve years I had searched for live specimens of Cerithidea djadjariensis but could find only empty or crabbed specimens.from three localities. I was also looking for Ena coreanica, an elusive Korean terrestrial species,.for about the same length of time but to no avail. Then, in 2013, one of my Russian friends and colleagues came to Jeju Island for a week of fieldwork. The second day she was here she collected at a locality where I had been before, and found one specimen of E. coreanica. "What's this?' she asked me and, with wonder and dismay, I told her. "How nice", she said and put the specimen in her collecting vial. Then a Belgian collector examined a site near the previous one and found a specimen. I still have not found this species, not even a dead shell.
Also, my wife and I took our Russian friend to an estuary where we had never collected before, and she found a live, adult specimen of C. djadjariensis! Enviously I identified it for her. I collected in the same area, and found only a few dead specimens. However, this story has a happy ending. Last month I went back to the same estuary at low tide and discovered a patch of sandy mud. On it was a population of C. djadjariensis! I realized that we had previously collected at mid tide, and only around the edges of the muddy area. But, to this day, I have still not found E. coreanica, after fifteen years of searching.
All the best from Korea!
Ron Noseworthy
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On Mon, 7/6/15, Martin Eastburn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Fool's gold
To: [log in to unmask]
Received: Monday, July 6, 2015, 9:24 AM
I'll tell of my story
- when reefing on Kwaj the rule was if a native
picked up anything it was theirs.
Not that we were concerned. Then on day
someone was walking home
instead of using
the boat.
He bent over and brought up a fist
size Golden Cowrie cracked it in two
with
his belt knife and slurp
down lunch. He kept
going and with sick hearts we did also. We didn't
have one at that time. Mom
kept the shell halves until she brought in a
matcher! Tales of the
60's. Martin
On 7/5/2015 6:11 PM, [log in to unmask]
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> What really irritates me is not
only Bob's point, but the fact that the person who finds
what I've been looking for finds a perfect specimen,
when I can only find broken or worn specimens, AND I know
that person intends to stick it in a jar of shells to
decorate their bathroom.
>
>
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-- Bob Winters <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> I get very inflective
over say, Inflectarius inflectus Say. I always
> complain when finding only Elliptio
complanata Lightfoot. In order to avoid
>
injury, one must be very lightfooted when walking over a bed
of these
> shells.
>
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015
at 1:24 PM, Carole Marshall <
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wrote:
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>> Could be a funny subject
David. My pet peeve is looking for a particular
>> shell, only to have some clueless
person walk up to me and ask "Do you know
>> what this is"? And have MY
shell.
>> Carole
>>
>> In a message dated
7/5/2015 1:43:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> [log in to unmask]
writes:
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>>
Idle holiday weekend question:
>>
>> Do other collectors find themselves
experiencing disappointment, mild
>>
irritation or frustration when they encounter something that
looks good at
>> first glance but
turns out to be mundane? Are there certain species that
>> are pet peeves?
>>
>> As I'm
culling drift, I'm looking for the tell-tale spiral of
most
>> gastropods, but also items
that are highly colored and highly sculptured.
>>
>> For Caribbean
drift, Bittiolum varium ranks up there for my personal
>> fool's gold. I know--I should
appreciate it for what it is. And I've
>> learned to "look past" my
initial responses.
>>
>> What are other shell addicts'
experiences? Objects of loathing and spite?
>>
>> David Kirsh,
LPC, RN
>>
>>
Sent from my iPhone
>>
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