Wow shell masters out there -  """" One World """"

I used to live on Kwajalein Island and 'play' in the atoll.
I just wish I knew as much as you when there.

Since then, I have cataloged 400 species or so - from there.

Some from the Red Sea, some from the Med, some from the Texas Coast,
South America and naturally all over the Pacific.  I know some species
of shell and slug and who knows what else was 'salted' there before
WWII.

Ships transport shells and people transport shells.  Not so much
as monsters we place on the mantle or in the display box, but eggs
and very small young.

When snorkeling in the lagoon we could determine the days to just give
it up when the blue water was masked white with floating and flowing egg
masses.

I'm not surprised.  The islands were controlled by Pacific Islanders for
centuries
and they carted food and eggs with them on their outriggers. Germans showed
up for stewardship and later the Japanese. We freed them in WWII and a
UN trust
territory set up - and not many years ago the islands transformed under
their
direction (If I have that right?) and formed 7 nations.  Those
'Marshall's' that
lived on islands in the Marianas voted to become US citizens as they
traded with
Guam and were like those peoples and not the Marshall's.

It would seem our borders are guarded for some things, peoples and animals.
They are so tight on some and blind eye on others.

Iguana and Pythons are rampant in the South East States.  All imported
and multiplied.
Then plants and fish.  I expect Lyon and piranha in the Everglades by
decade end. UGH.
Fist starting in brackish and slowly converting to fresh water.
I know it can be done, we did Scats from pure salt to pure fresh in our
tanks 50 years ago.

I can't say and won't - but I wonder as did the author about the cowrie
in Canada!

Martin

[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dear Harry & all,
>
> I will be searching for this shell. I am wondering, because of the
> direct development of this species, what the general consensis is. I
> don't have the La Conchiglia issue.
> I can understand the Lion fish, aquarium releases gone wild, even
> Perna can be transferred by bilge water or even possibly through water
> spouts, I heard it rained cows once, so a veliger would be nothing,
> but I don't think any aquarist would release a Cymatium. Hurricane
> winds perhaps? More discussion please.
>
>
> Harry, you wrote:
> Dear Carole,
>
> I share your amazement with the apparently new appearance of the
> Clandestine Triton on the western Atlantic.
>
> As best I can tell the species was unknown in the Atlantic Ocean until
> 1981, when Pierre Bernard reported two specimens collected by a Scuba
> diver in Gabon, west Africa (Bernard, 1981).
>
> Just four years later, Eliézer Rios reported it from Bahia, Brazil
> (Rios, 1985: 77)
>
> According to Malacolog 4.1.1 (just launched last week); <
> http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?nameid=3004>), the latter is the
> only western Atlantic record. However, it has been found in southeast
> Florida more than once; see < http://www.jaxshells.org/peanut.htm> and
> < http://www. jaxshells.org/annes.htm
> <http://www.jaxshells.org/annes.htm>>.
>
> Whether this is a recent introduction or just a late discovery of an
> abiding (but clandestine) element of the triton fauna is not certain.
> There is a whole genre of malacological literature dealing with the
> extensive zoogeography of the ranellids and other charismatic
> megagastropods with prodigious dispersal mechanisms.
>
> Bernard, P.A., 1981. Two rare tritons from Gabon. /La Conchiglia
> 13/(150-151): 17. Sept.-Oct.
> Rios, E.C. 1985. /Seashells of Brazil. /Museu Oceanográfico, Rio
> Grande do Sul, Brasil. [ii] + 329 pp., 102 pls.
>
> Harry
>

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