Ross,

I love land snails, but still have very few.
I think the my reason is the same as most people's:
        Huge group with so much to learn, but very difficult to get
        identification info on. And so much confusion in classification!
Land shells are fantastic, but soooooo difficult to tackle.

I think a little pumonate resuscitation is in order (sorry!),
Peter Egerton,
Soaking wet and cold in Vancouver, Canada



At 01:28 AM 5/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
>I have been doing some work with land snails recently, and find myself
>wondering "why aren't these guys WAY more popular than they seem to
>be???"  Cowries are downright boring by comparison (ok, they are shiny -
>so is glass!!)!!  There are more species of land molluscs than there are
>marine, and the sheer variety of forms is just knocking me out.
>
>I understand that in the nineteenth century, land snails (and
>Epitoniids!)  were all the rage - so what happened - and are these
>incredibly varied shells making a comeback slowly but surely??
>
>Always curious in Canada,
>Ross.
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>
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Peter Egerton, Vancouver, Canada
Collector of worldwide Mollusca,
lifetime student of zoology and computers.
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