Is there another source of janthina besides the Sargasso Sea in the
Caribbean area?  If not those ones found in WA and OR had a very, very long
trip.  Incredible!!
 
Beth DeHaas
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> From: Tom Rice <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Janthinidae.
> Date: Sunday, May 24, 1998 1:15 PM
>
> Our northwest coast is also sometimes visited by Janthina.
> In the mid 1960's Alan Rammer (Olympia, Washington) donated specimens of
J.
> exigua found at Westport, Washington and Bruce Schulz (Eugene, Oregon)
> donated specimens of the same species collected  at Devil's Elbow State
> Park's "Hobbit Beach" on the Oregon coast.
>
> Tom Rice
> At 01:32 PM 5/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear Conch-L..ers, You may be surprised to know that towards the end of
a
> >warm summer we occasasionally find Janthina janthina on the southernmost
> >tip of Ireland, courtesy, I presume of Gulf Stream Travel.   I found
about
> >a dozen one morning after a storm on the beach beside Waterville Golf
Club.
> > A few years later   I was told by Dr Dai Roberts (Queens University
> >Belfast), that one of my finds was in fact a Janthina pallida, which had
> >been mentioned by Nora McMillan in her book 'British Seashells', but it
had
> >not been  recorded since.  Stanley Francis.
> >