Paul Monfils schrieb:

>  what sort of mollusk lives on oil pipelines?
>
> Paul M.

I remembered a story about rare shells found on undersea cables, so I
went to my bookshelf to look for it:
in 1899 a Capt. Frederick W. Townsend found the third and fourth specimen
of Conus milneedwardsi ever recorded (the types of Conus clytospira
Melvill & Standen) on a cable they were controlling off Bombay. The cable
had been lying at 45 fathoms (82.4 meters). At that time few were the
opportunities to find shells from these depths, that´s why they were
extremely rare before divers and trawlers provided us collectors with
more of those treasures.

Michael

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