Thanks a lot, Fabio!

Best regards,
Franck
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From: "Paolo G. Albano" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Can introductions be assimilated to range extensions?


> Hi Franck
> Be very careful with material labeled from Somalia.
> When I lived in Somalia I bought Cypraea cervus and Zoila decipiens from
> local dealers.
> Now, I have seen some material which is clearly from the Red Sea.
> Somalian dealers do not care much about locality data and most
> international dealers who deal with somalian shells are sometimes unable
> to
> check the real origin of specimens.
> The difficulties in conducting any field collecting in that war torn
> country from non-somalians do not allow to understand the local fauna
> properly.
> Regards
> Paolo
>
> At 09.15 16/10/2007 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>Recently specimens of Harpa kajiyamai from Somalia have appeared on the
>>market...There probably is one in India too as there is at least one
>>Indian
>>specimen known. I have also heard about the species being  now  found in
>>New
>>Caledonia and that its specimens, as well as those from Somalia and India,
>>are identical to those from the Philippines.
>>For sure these population  appeared thanks to boats so comes a question:
>>Should we conclude to  range extensions or simply to introductions? If
>>kajiyamai specimens could take a boat heading for Martinique to eventually
>>settle there could the birth of such a population really be considered as
>>an extension range??? I am not at all sure of this and am interested in
>>knowing what
>>you, Conchlers, think...
>>
>>Franck Frydman
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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