Hi Harry
Thanks for the info. I'll try and get the land mollusc ones, but I think
they'll be difficult to get. As an aside, are you Dr Harry Lee re the photo
of land snails collected in a Florida backyard that appears in R Tucker
Abbotts's book (page 27)?
Thanks
Alex
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Sent: 10 July 2005 21:09
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Subject: Re: New York and snails and slugs
Dear Alex,
Here are some useful references:
Marine, freshwater, land:
Jacobson, M. K. and W. K. Emerson, 1961. Shells of the New York City area
Argonaut, Larchmont, NY. xvii + 1-142.
Marine:
Balch, F. N. 1899. List of marine Mollusca of Coldspring Harbor, Long
Island, with descriptions of one new genus and two new species of
nudibranchs. 1-30 + 1 plate.
Long Island Shell Club, 1988. Seashells of Long Island, New York. Long
Island Shell Club, New York. 1-209.
Freshwater:
Clarke, A. H., Jr. and C. O. Berg, 1959. The freshwater mussels of Central
New York. Cornell Univ. Agr. Expt. Sta. Mem. no. 367: 1-79.
Strayer, D.L. 1988. Ecology and zoogeography of the freshwater mollusks
of the Hudson River basin. Malacological Review 20(1-2):1-68.
Landsnails:
Robertson, I. C. S., and Blakeslee, C. L., 1948. The mollusca of the
Niagara Frontier region. Bulletin of the Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 19(3): pp.
1-191 + i-xi + map. July.
Tim Pierce (Carnegie Museum) and Ken Hotopp (Appalachian Conservation
Biology, Frostburg, MD) are working on a monograph treating the landsnails
of New York State.
On May 11, 1963 I led a members of the New Jersey Shell Club to a point
near the NJ side of the Milford-Montague bridge over the Delaware River.
There we collected 27 shell-bearing species of land snails. That's pretty
good for the northeast. Locality and malacological details are provided in:
Lee, H. G., 1963. Land field trip May 11, 1963. The Jersey Sheller 1(1):
11-13. Jan.
As for destinations within three hours of NYC: A short story on collecting
in Ithaca, NY is at <http://www.jaxshells.org/hispida.htm>, southern VT at
<http://www.jaxshells.org/vermont.htm> and
<http://www.jaxshells.org/vermontnew.htm>.
I'm ignorant of any collecting regulations.
Harry
At 07:08 AM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>In October I'll be spending about a week in New York. Time is limited but I
>wanted to have a snoop around and get some idea of what the land molluscs
>are about there.
>
>(1) any recommended areas for a look at living molluscs?
>(2) somewhere to see collections (I'm going to the American Museum of
>Natural History anyway)?
>(3) guide on land molluscs of New York?
>(4) collecting restrictions?
>
>Thanks
>
>Alex
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