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Re: Janthina
From:
Kay Lavalier <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:22:59 -0500
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Andrew Vik
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Art:

Why the gloves for handling Janthina? Do they save the stinging cells of their
prey like many nudibranchs do? I have only found a few  1.5" wide specimens (in
Hawaii), and I did not get stung picking them up.

Andrew V.

Art Weil wrote:

> Dear Sergio;-
>         Pseaudoscalaris Brocchi 1814 is an earlier name for E. lamellosum
> Lamarck, 1822. I have no record of that name being used by Risso.
>         All the Janthiniidae are palagic. They may turn up most anywwhere. If
> they do----use gloves.
>         Art Weil

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