Author is (Mueller, 1774)
----- Original Message -----
From: Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: unidentified shells


> Dear John, Dear Henk
>
> I agree with Henk Mienis, but I have to correct the
> name as Melanoides is masculinum. So the shell is
> not called Melanoides tuberculata as in former times,
> but the ending should be tuberculatus
> Melanoides tuberculatus.
> Sorry for the moment I have not available the author
> as I keep not in mind and all the informations I
> have not here.
> with best shelling greetings
> Helmut from Innsbruck
>
>
> --- Henk and Zvia Mienis <[log in to unmask]>
> schrieb: > It is an introduced species: Melanoides
> tuberculata.
> > Henk K. Mienis
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Cramer, John <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:11 PM
> > Subject: unidentified shells
> >
> >
> > > Dear all: take a look at this picture and see if
> > you recognize the shells.
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://petrelnet.oglethorpe.edu/division3/Faculty/jcramer/jcramer.htm
> > >
> > > I found the auger-like stuff at Lake Cunningham,
> > New Providence Isl. near
> > > Nassau.  Paul Mikkelsen and Harry Lee both guessed
> > Cerithidea
> > scalariformis
> > > from my description a few weeks back but they're
> > nothing like my
> > > scalariformis.  I believe the lake is freshwater -
> > didn't sample it.
> > > The small shells are land snails from bushes
> > around our resort at South
> > > Ocean Beach on New Providence Isl.
>
>
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