On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:15:44 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>Allan,
>
>Check out the following publication:
>Orstan, Aydin. 1999. Drill Holes in land snail shells from western Turkey.
>Schriften zur Malakolozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur ? Cismar 13: 31-36.
>
>> About one third of the shells of Sphincterochila fimbriata which I
>> examined on a hillside above the Sea of Galilee just south of Tiberius,
>> Israel had miniscule boreholes, ....What can bore such tiny holes, and
why?
>
>Regards,
>Charlie
>.................................................
>Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
>Carnegie Museum of Natural History
>Pittsburgh, PA, USA
>
>Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
>
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Dear All,

The phenomenon is also pretty weel described in Francisco Welter-Schultes
publication and study on East Cretan ( Greece) Clausillidae.
Sorry, I don't have exact references on hand.
Charles

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