Cannot produce a researched statistic, but my understanding is that recent
mollusc extinctions are in the order of several hundred (400?) - mainly land
and freshwater
Geoff Macaulay


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>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Extinctions
>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:57:20 -0500
>
>    Like you, I have heard, periodicly, about how many creatures become
>extinct every year---due to loss of habitat, polution, mad cow dung, and a
>few etc's.
>    My question is: Dating from the 1800's, have any mollusks become
>extinct? And does anyone have the last of them?
>     Other question: Species from the pliestocene are close but different.
>Did the Pleistocene species become extinct---or merely change as time went
>on?
>   Your devoted Question Man
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