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Dear All,
>Ross Mayhew wrote:
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> There are about 100 families of them, from minute .5mm
>> Vitrinellids, to tree snails up to about 150mm (Anyone know of larger
>> landsnail-beasties?).
This is not a Recent species, but Frank P. Wesselingh and Edmund
Gittenberger just published the description of new species ^Pebasiconcha
immanis^, a fossil Acavidae land snail from the Pebas Formation, Middle
Miocene of tropical Peru. The beast measured over 25 cm (about 10 inches)
in length. Reference is: Wesselingh, F.P. & E. Gittenberger. 1999. The
Giant Amazonian Snail (Pulmonata: Acavidae) beats them all. The Veliger
41(1):67-71 (January 1999).
Best,
Jose
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