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Thanks Paul,
Do you know of any links that i may try to find more specifics on this
volute? Bob
At 11:08 AM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Zidona dufresnei is a volute, not a top shell. Top shells are
>herbivorous, but volutes are predators, feeding on a wide range of
>invertebrate animals, including other mollusks. Probably some volutes
>are sufficiently opportunistic to feed on a dead animal they find (and
>can thereby be caught in traps), but I don't know specifically if Zidona
>dufresnei does this.
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>Paul M.
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Robert Fisher
Commercial Fisheries Specialist
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
College of William and Mary
(804) 684-7168
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw
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