Dear Lynn,
I am going to have to respectfully decline the job. Just too many irons in
the fire. After I retire I'll be able to do more of this kind of thing.
Harry
At 09:20 PM 4/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Harry,
>
>This would make a really nice little article, don't you think? One for
>American Coonchologist for September? Would you be will ing to make it
>into one that meets your specifications?
>
>Lynn (see what happens when my attention focuses on you?)
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>In April, 1987 I read an account in a Kotakinabalu (insular Malaysia)
>newspaper of a family who ate an unspecified number of an Oliva species
>harvested from shallow N. W. Borneo waters and became ill as a result.
>At
>least one fatality was attributed to poisoning. The report sounded
>quite
>authoritative. I doubt that this was paralytic shellfish poisoning
>(dinoflagellate contamination).
>
>There is a substance called "saxitoxin" which accounts for human illness
>following the consumption of certain Neptunea species occurring in
>Japanese
>waters. It is localized in the salivary glands of these snails.
>
>Likewise, Mediterranean muricid snails and relatives have a salivary
>toxin
>known to cause human illness, even death, after ingestion (yet many,
>many
>people eat these shellfish without ill effects). This is murexine,
>which
>is chemically better studied than most marine biotoxins. It's very
>closely
>associated with the purple pigment of Phoenician maritime commerce, etc.
>
>Also the Mediterranean sea hare has been incriminated in human poisoning
>since Pliny's report in the first century A. D. Again, the toxin is
>associated with the salivary apparatus and probably is important in
>predation.
>
>Abalone viscera, at least in Japan, have caused human illness after
>ingestion.
>
>I guess the best strategy for the human molluscivore is to leave snail
>viscera on the plate if there is any question as to safety. I, for one,
>have eaten dozens of marine snail species but never felt the slightest
>urge
>to eat any parts but the mantle and foot.
>
>At 05:26 PM 4/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>I'd heard that olives were toxic. No?
>
>Harry G. Lee
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>Jacksonville, FL 32204
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