>Andy,
>There are enough parasitic snails to keep this malacologic (as some
>have gone completely internal in holothurians, losing their
>shells.)What is it about parasites that makes people cringe?
>Perhaps the idea that the Creator made life in his own image and
>therefore benificent ("... and it was good.")?  Real life is not the
>Garden of Eden, but it is good!

Ask a holothurian full of Entoconcha and encrusted with Melanella
just how good it is...
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
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