Charlie,
I haven't gotten through all my accumulated messages from a couple weeks
off work...but if you don't get satisfaction on this, contact Dr. David
Robinson at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.  He's THE
non-native mollusk expert for USDA.  [log in to unmask]

Kurt

At 01:33 AM 8/31/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Can anyone on the list, especially those on you in California tell me if
>Otala punctata (Muller, 1774) is currently found as an introduced species
>in the Los Angeles region.  I picked up a worn specimen when I was walking
>around on vacation there and for all the world the specimen I have seems
>close to this terrestrial taxon.  Don't have a scanned image of it and not
>sure how useful it would be considering how worn it is.  Thanks for any
>information provided.
>
>Charlie
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>Charlie Sturm, Jr
>Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
>                     Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
>Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
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