Dear landshellers and conchlers,
 
My mother now, aged nearly 88 years, wanted to share an adventure,
which she had about 10 years ago. My mother brought home some normal landshells from a collecting day, among them a couple of
Cepaea hortensis. On the 15 th of may will be 10 th anniversary.
Cleaning them after boiling at one specimen she payed attention,
as she was not able to pull out the dead animal. She was wondering
to do this and she looked better. This specimen of Cepaea hortensis
was left winded (twisted). It is always an adventure to find left shells
instead of right ones. So I have in my collection a left turned Cochlostoma henricae henricae and Acicula lineata lineata.
Another adventure was to find a scalaroid Arianta arbustorum.
with best shelling greetings, also by my adventure mother.
Helmut from Innsbruck
Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0443 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/
 
or
 
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37