Fabio Moretzsohn wrote:
> I am taking the liberty of forwarding a message I received through
> Mollusca-L, since I know some of you may be able to contribute
> knowledge and specimens to the people below. Please contact them at
> their email addresses below, and if you think Conch-lers will also be
> interested (as I think they will), copy to us here.

* Ulrich Schneppat, referenced below, is currently in North America, for
the next week here, and then in Utah, and is receiving mail at
<[log in to unmask]> - so this is a chance for North Americans to get
Limax to him without sending them internationally. (He deprecates Canada
as the only country to which Limax is introduced from which Task Force
Limax hasn't received any specimens, and we're trying to do what we can
to remedy this).

The workshop he'll be giving here this week is described at
http://groups.google.com/group/naturelist/msg/a6675d91160a76f0?hl=en

fred.
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>
> Dear Molluscan Colleagues....
> This is a Forward from the Mammal Front,
>
> Werner
>
> _______
>
>
> Dear Michael,
>
> I had many slugs on snap-traps. On the peanut butter and also on the
> dead mice. Slugs also enter live traps (probably depends on bait).
>
> Some members of the genus Arion and Deroceras are surely not
> indigenous to Americas. You can regard them as aliens. In Europe,
> these are regarded as a pest to vegetable gardens. The genus Limax (in
> Europe: Limax maximus, Limax cineroniger) are detrivorous, but very
> agressive towords conspecifics....). On the other hand: Limacus flavus
> seems to be very social, but that is a different story....
>
> I am very happy to see a cross-over theme (Mammals / Mollusca). I am a
> member of the
> Task Force Limax  <http://www.tf-limax.org/> .
>
> This mail gives me the opportunity to ask for specimens of Limax sp.:
> We need the animals alive for prep and DNA. In this sense, please
> contact:
> "Schneppat Ulrich" <[log in to unmask]>
> "Barbara Nitz"  <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> I passed this mail and the summary on to the Mollusca-L. - Hope you
> don't mind...
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Werner
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>
>
> Hello list: I saw something yesterday I had not seen before, and was
> interested to see how common this is. I know there are carnivorous
> slugs, but was not sure if they also ate carrion? I am doing some snap
> trapping in NE MN, and have been amazed at the numbers of slugs on the
> traps. They can clean the peanut butter off a trap in 24 hours. But I
> also had 2 captured animals covered in slugs, and it appeared that the
> slugs had begun to eat the animals. The first vole could have simply
> had ear issues, but the next animal was obviously being consumed.
>
> I am sure I am seeing something common I just have never seen before
> since I normally do only live trapping. And I *still* can't get a
> straight answer on whether slugs are native to MN or if like
> earthworms the ones we have are European invasives.
>
> Mike.
>
> --
> Michael S. Rentz
> PhD Candidate, Conservation Biology
> University of Minnesota
> 5122 Idlewild Street
> Duluth, MN 55804
> (218) 525-3299
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> Dr. Werner Haberl
> Biologist, Consultant
> Address: Hamburgerstrasse 11/17, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
> Phone & Fax: (+431) 941 13 13 - E-Mail: shrews(at)chello.at
>       Former Chair, Insectivore Specialist Group, SSC, IUCN
>       TFL Task-Force-Limax <http://www.tf-limax.org/>
>       Öko-Team: Institut für Tierökologie und Naturraumplanung
> <htpp://www.oekoteam.at>
>       Editorial Board: International J. of Ecology & Development
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> The Shrew Shrine:          http://members.vienna.at/shrew or
> http://members.chello.at/natura
> The Dormouse Hollow:  http://www.glirarium.org/dormouse
>
> "I love trees. - There should be more of them ..."
>
>
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> Fabio Moretzsohn, Ph.D.
> Assistant Research Scientist
> Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
> Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
> 6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5869, Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5869
> Phone: (361) 825-3230; Fax: (361) 825-2050
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