Everyone,
I'm very pleased to be able to announce the long-awaited:
Grimm, F. Wayne, Robert G. Forsyth, Frederick W. Schueler, & Aleta
Karstad. 2009 [2010]. Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada:
Introduced Species and Native Genera. Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
Ottawa. iv+168 pp.
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pestrava/escarge.shtml
...and
Grimm, F. Wayne, Robert G. Forsyth, Frederick W. Schueler, & Aleta
Karstad. 2009 [2010]. Identification des escargots et des limaces
terrestres au Canada: Espèces introduites et genres indigènes. Agence
canadienne d'inspection des alimentes. Ottawa. iv+168 pp. (translation
of Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada, edited by Isabelle
Picard). http://www.inspection.gc.ca/francais/plaveg/pestrava/escargf.shtml
These are "targeted to academics, master gardeners, hobby collectors and
CFIA and Canada Border Services Agency inspectors," and we're told
they're available at no cost from CFRA by calling 1-800-442-2342.
Presumably, such a call would have to be made during business hours,
eastern time.
We don't know how many copies CFIA is going to print, but as the
perpetrators, we'll shyly say that the hard-copy versions are
spectacular, leading off with a picture of the pink Cepaea nemoralis
with the pale mid-axial band that we found crawling across the
Mississagi Lighthouse campground, 9.5 km WSW Meldrum Bay, and winding up
with the Limax maximus we found along the Dyers Bay Rd, 0.2 km SW Dyers
Bay settlement, inspecting the portrait Aleta had painted of it.
CD copies are also available; I haven't opened the CD to see how big a
file it is. While this book is focused on introduced species, there's
enough about the native genera to make it possible to get a grip on the
conspicuous species of the native fauna from the generic accounts.
This has been a long haul since the earliest documents proposing it,
which date, on my hard drive, back to 1997, and even a long haul since
Wayne unexpectedly died in 2005. Our profound thanks to Frank Ross &
Donna Richoux for supporting this project, and then to CFIA for taking
it up, to Robert and Isabelle for providing the real malacology, and to
Judy Courteau and Matt Keevil for all the help with field work and
curation. Those who wonder what I contributed will note the inclusion of
nuanced sentences, such as the one on page 42, which concludes: "...we
are reluctant to identify North American specimens with European species
that are themselves controversial."
This is the first work to treat the entire Canadian fauna of terrestrial
Gastropods, and we hope it will spark a great increase of interest in
the life history, ecological roles, and systematics of Canadian land
snails & slugs. see http://pinicola.ca/slugwork.htm
fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
Thirty Years Later Expedition - http://pinicola.ca/thirty/
Longterm ecological monitoring - http://fragileinheritance.org/
Portraits of light - http://www.aletakarstad.com/
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
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