Dear Thomas,

wellcome to the list and as Clausilia man also from
Innsbruck.

please contact me privately under

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with best shelling greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck

--- Thomas Schampaert
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Hello,
>
> I, Thomas Schampaert, just subscribed to the CONCH-L
> list. To
> introduce myself, I send you this message.
>
> What should I tell about myself? Nothing much to
> talk about ...
> because I'm a starting amateur. Some general
> informations: I'm a 19
> year old Belgian student who discovered his
> obsession in Mollusca 3
> years ago. Since my 'toddler'-years I was interested
> in everything
> that had to deal whit nature in general, especially
> the 'creepy
> crawlers': insects, spiders, worms, etc. I never
> lost this interest
> and it resulted in my studies in Biological Sciences
> at the Catholic
> University in Leuven.
>
> 3 years ago, when walking along the beach at Rhodos
> a found a
> beautiful specimen of Euthria cornea and then it all
> started ... .
> Looking for books, papers, making small trips to
> collect shells in
> Belgium, etc. In 1998 I became a member of the
> Belgian Society for
> Conchology (Antwerp). This was 'the big step
> forward': my interest in
> shells differentiated progressively.
>
> I'm generally interested in paleobiology,
> systematics and phylogeny of
> the phylum Mollusca. I'm collecting European
> seashells but I am much
> more interested in landsnails and slugs. My
> favourite family is the
> family Clausiliidae. Other families on the list:
> Neritidae, Triviidae,
> Ficidae, Mytilidae and Tellinidae.
>
> At the very moment I have only one question, but
> seemingly a difficult
> one (nobody was able to help me before): is there
> any book or paper
> describing Clausiliidae in general, is there any
> book that could be
> referred to as a 'standard' in the study in
> Clausiliidae?
>
> Thanks for reading this 'introduction', I'm
> expecting a lot of the new
> abilities to explore with my new subsrcibtion.
>
> Yours,
>
> Thomas Schampaert


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