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Subject:
Preserved Pacific islands ellobiids needed
From:
Andrew Grebneff <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:06:57 +1200
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Needed: specimens of any and all Ellobiidae, but ESPECIALLY Signia
striata (often incorrectly placed in Melampus) from the tropical west
Pacific...

Purpose: anatomical and DNA work.

Specimens need to be relaxed in seawater with magnesium chloride
(which totally anesthetizes them) and dropped into 70% and 90%
ethanol.

If someone is prepared to collect specimens, I can send ethanol and
magnesium chloride...
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Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
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Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut
I want your sinistral gastropods!

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