TO ALL: COMPLETE LIST OF PROTECTED MEDITERRANEAN SPECIES: 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. ONLY MEDITERRANEAN SPECIES (POPULATIONS) are PROTECTED. ATLANTIK POPULATIONS ARE NOT PROTECTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pholas dactylus Lithophaga lithophaga Pinna pernula Patella feruginea (= Patella ferruginea) Gibbula nivosa Dendropoma petraeum Patella nigra Erosaria spurca Luria lurida Schilderia achatidea Zonaria pyrum Charonia rubicunda [= C. lampas, = C. nodiferum] Charonia "tritonis" [= C. sequenziae] Ranella olearia Tonna galea Mitra zonata Best regards 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