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Rapana venosa also exists since a lot of years in the Adriatic.
Helmut
Helmut "Helix" Nisters
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Gary,
Does this include the veined Rapa whelk Rapana venosa? It is a non-native
gastropod taking hold here in Virginia waters. Bob
At 09:39 AM 3/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
>We are cataloguing a large collection of Rapaninae, which contains a
series of specimens collected by "Weitlauf" in Taiwan (1967-1981 and Saudi
Arabia 1978 respectively). Does anyone know if this would be George
Weitlauf of Largo, Florida, who was listed as a member of COA in the 1980s?
If so, does anyone know what happened to his collection?
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>Thanks,
>Gary
>
Robert Fisher
Commercial Fisheries Specialist
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
College of William and Mary
(804) 684-7168
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
depends on the unreasonable man." -George Bernard Shaw
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