Hi David,

     There are not Steironepion in the Mediterranean, the only similar forms
belong to Chauvetia. Concerning the land snails, those discoidal or keeled
specimens, with pale whorls, brown base and orange mouth are Theba
subdentata helicella (Wood, 1828), a Moroccan species that nobody knows when
was introduced in Almería. I also found it in the same place.

Sebastián Torres
Málaga, Spain

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> I'm back from Spain, with a few days of shelling on southeastern beaches.
>
> With so much of the shoreline composed of pebbles or gravel, it seemed
> that there were no visible living species intertidally and little to none
> shell fragment in places. The best shoreline spot I could find was just
> south of the town of Aguilas, where diverse micros mixed with gravel just
> behind the rocks in the swash zone.
>
> From a cursory glance, it looks like there's a Steironepion species in the
> Mediterranean, with small evenly spaced teeth on the outer lip. Does
> anyone know what it might be? More on the micros when I get a chance.
>
> The beach at the airport in Almeria had a number of decent beached shells
> despite the strong surf. Discoidal land snails with orange apertures
> covered the brush on the path to the beach. What are these?
>
> David Kirsh
> Durham, NC
>
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