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On molluscs there are growing maybe worms, balanus and don't forget
foraminiferas, like Homatrema,
Miniacea, eg.
with best shelling greetings
Helmut
Helmut "Helix" Nisters
private:
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: www.netwing.at/nisters
office:
Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
Feldstrasse 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
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website: www.tiroler-landesmuseum.at
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Dear Conchlers,
I've seen some weird things growing on living mollusks: algae, barnacles,
bryozoans, and so on. My favorite is a little Mulinia lateralis from
Mississippi Sound, Alabama. The little clam lived mostly embedded in the mud
and nevertheless had a small barnacle growing on the exposed part of each
valve. The two barnacles were flattened on the side facing each other, so
the two would meet when the clam closed its valves. Real togetherness!
What's the weirdest thing that you ever saw growing on a LIVE mollusk?
(Incidentally, biologists call these organisms 'epibionts.')
Andrew K. Rindsberg
Geological Survey of Alabama
P.O. Box 869999
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999
USA
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