Hi, Susan!

I share your frustration.

For fifteen years I have been trying to find live specimens of Assimineidae, Truncatellidae, and Ellobiidae here on Jeju Island.  I have plenty of dead specimens of several species from each family, but so far I have only one live-taken specimen of Laemodonta octanfracta, in the Ellobiidae, and it took a lot of searching to find that one.

If anyone has any tips on how and where to look for these elusive high intertidal critters, I would really appreciate it!

All the best from Korea!
Ron Noseworthy

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On Tue, 9/22/15, Susan J. Hewitt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 Subject: [CONCH-L] Melampus monile and Tralia ovula
 To: [log in to unmask]
 Received: Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 10:43 PM
 
 When I am in the Leeward Islands, on
 the rocky islands of Nevis, St. Kitts, Montserrat and St.
 Eustatius, I fairly often find, in the beach drift, almost
 everywhere, at least a few really fresh-looking shells of
 Melampus monile and Tralia ovula.
 
 There is no salt marsh habitat on these islands or anything
 remotely resembling that. Does anyone know where exactly
 these pulmonates live in rocky areas or on rocky islands? Do
 they live under small rocks at and above the high tide
 level? 
 
 And where do they live on sand beaches that have only very
 dry habitat above the high tide level?
 
 I have tried searching under dead seaweed at and above high
 tide level, but with no luck: the tropical sun always seems
 to have baked the weed until it is dry and crisp.
 
 I also can't find live Truncatella, despite there being
 shells in the beach drift.
 
 Any ideas for where these animals live on dry rocky
 islands?
 
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