In most cases I have found South African (sorry for the generalisation)
literature extremely parochial. The books tend to ignore anything outside
South Africa. Of course there are several perfectly acceptable reasons for
this, but it needs to be borne in mind when looking at your South African
shell books. There are several shells in Steyn & Lussi (nice book, that)
that we can find here in Australia, but no mention of this vast range in
the book. I didn't think Mozambique was that far, and probably within the
same zoogeological province, so my best guess is that at least half the
species in Steyn & Lussi can also be found there.

By the way, didn't we at some stage agree that we should include the
sender's physical location at the bottom of E-mail we send to the list? I
was particularly intrigued by Brooke's description of the outside
conditions. We are in July mid winter and although it's cold (well, all
things are relative, it means we have to put on a jumper) its definitely
not that bad. So I, for one, am intertested: Brooke, where on earth are
you? And can you find any shells there when you do get to go out?

Patt6y Jansen
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