> From: Stephanie Clark <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:17:47 +1000
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> Subject: Re: Cymatium
>
> David and Geoff etc
>
Stephanie,
I guess Cymatium veligers are not the only stage that wander very far!
David
> I too have found the odd specimen of Cymatium parthenopeum in fully marine
> conditions, but like Geoff have found only one intertidally. It was also
> siting out in the open during the day on a sea grass bed at Burrill Lake,
> southern NSW about a 100 or so km N of Geoff's specimen and this caused the
> species to be included in the CD-Rom of the estuarine and freshwater
> molluscs of NSW.
>
> Now back to dissecting new species for the thesis.
>
> Regards
>
> Stephanie