Dear all, I will inform you about that the following species from the Mediterranean Sea are protected now for more than two years after the Berner Convention. If you collect or offer this species for sale or tade (also dead collected ones) you break a international law. Species from the Atlantik are not protected!!! Erosaria spurca (Linnaeus, 1758) Luria lurida (Linnaeus, 1758) Schilderia achatidea (Gray in Sowerby, 1837) Mitra zonata Marryat, 1818 Zonaria (Zonaria) pyrum (Gmelin, 1791) Tonna galea (Linnaeus, 1758) Pinna nobilis Linnaeus, 1758 Best reagards Wolfgang Fischer Wolfgang Fischer Institut fuer Pflanzenbau u. Pflanzenzuechtung Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Gregor Mendel Str. 33 1180 Wien AUSTRIA http://ipp.boku.ac.at/private/wf/index.html E-mail: [log in to unmask] Fax: ++43 1 47654-3342 Tel: ++43 1 47654-3307