Having salt and fresh water fish tanks and various snails
within, we would buy some plant and forget to treat it -
We would then grow snails from eggs.

Likely the plants were bought and carried in stuff.

Rant-on:
Customs and importation ports were more careful but now
are a bit lax.  Many people bring plants from overseas
on boats or private ships and simply plant that neat xxx
thereby transporting. Rant-off

I lived on a small coral island and was very aware of
hitch-hikers.  They came by airplane, boat(local and distant natives),
ships(cargo and Military (SEATO, etc) ) and wave currents.
We got birds off a cargo ship.  But mostly shells of this and that.

Some were transported to be used food source common to the importer.
Some for practical use.  Commercial Top.

Around here, birds, Snowy Egrets transport from pond to pond, field
to field.  The local university had some non-mollusks let loose.

Martin

John Varner wrote:
> I once collected a nice Glandina on a potted plant for sale at the local
> nursery, about 1000 miles north of its native Florida.  There is also a
> specie of land snail native to the British Isles that is now rather
> common
> in certain New England towns, no doubt from colonial era transplantings.
> I have also collected specimens of a large freshwater mussel from a very
> small and hydrologically isolated pond in my neighborhood.  There were
> never
> boats on this pond, so I presume they got there via water fowl of some
> sort,
> probably as larva (eggs? veligers?) tucked into feathers.  The next
> nearest
> body of water is several miles away.
> Those little buggers do get around, eh?
>
>
>
> - John
>
>
>
>
>
>> From: Monsecourbrothers <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Conchologists List <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [CONCH-L] hitchhiking landsnail
>> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:14:50 +0200
>>
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> About a week ago,there was an item about migrating landsnails, sometimes
>> hitchhiking on cars etc. What about this one: a friend of mine found a
>> living Eobania species in a forest near Antwerp (Belgium), whereas
>> this is
>> a species typical of the Mediterranean region. Guess how it got to
>> Belgium
>> (at least, that's what we think): celery! As we seem to import celery
>> from
>> Spain, Portugal etc, some Eobania have been spotted before in
>> celeries at
>> the grocery's, but this is the first living one 'out there'.
>>
>
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