> "M. sallei is another New World species that has reached the Old World."
> where exactly except for Pacific isles?
http://www.marine.csiro.au/crimp/nimpis/spsummary.asp?txa=8064
map shows them from southern Japan and Korea to Thailand and Malaysia and through Indonesia, plus separate invasion around much of India
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA
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