I am not impressed at all with the land snail information. It looks like
someone sat down with a copy of Abbot's Compendium of Landshells & copied
everything in there, which is very incomplete & in many cases inaccurate.
Even the pictures of land snails appear to have been scanned from the
Compendium.

Aydin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Mayhew [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, 13 January, 2002 9:51 PM
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> Subject: Amazing site - but who made it?????
> Importance: High
>
>
> I have found a site which is probably "under construction",
> http://www.chez.com/malacos/act.htm which has a well researched
> systematic index of about 16,250 species in some large collection
> seemingly in France - over 300 familes represented, and almost 2000
> genera.  Photos of a representative of almost all the genera
> are given,
> and everything is documented in detail.  The bibliography
> alone is worth
> the visit!!!   That said, there is no clue that i can find,
> as to who is
> actually constructing this wonderful site: any candidates???  Anyone
> seeking fairly up-to-date nomenclature would do well to consult this
> site, but it sure would be nice to know who to thank for it.
>
> From the "weather bombed" city of Halifax,
> Ross M.
>