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Bootleg transactions of the 15th MAM meeting 18 Mar 2013 | 05:15 am
The 15th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists took place yesterday at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. I counted 35 names on the sign-up sheet, 12 of whom ga...
Cecilioides on plasticine 18 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm
These shells of the land snail Cecilioides janii were positioned on plasticine for photography. In an e-mail, Francisco Welter-Schultes wrote: "...your picture looks really good, like the artist's int...
Charles Darwin and Baron Aucapitaine 25 Dec 2012 | 07:54 am
After a long hiatus, I return with one last post before the year ends. In the fourth edition of The origin of species (1866), Charles Darwin, while discussing the results of his limited experiments on...
Gastropod anatomy from photographs of live animals 31 Jul 2012 | 12:37 am
One can learn much about gastropod anatomy by watching live animals and studying their photographs. In fact, there are certain aspects of gastropod anatomy that are hard to appreciate in preserved spe...
Discus rotundatus in Montreal 17 Jul 2012 | 02:22 am
In August 2008, I announced here my finding of the snail Discus catskillensis on Mont Royal in Montreal, Canada*. Subsequently, a few readers questioned my identification and suggested that the snail ...
Notes of a Cepaea watcher: a whole lotta eggs 3 Jun 2012 | 07:45 am
One of the 2 Cepaea nemoralis I have been keeping since last winter dug a deep hole in the soil and deposited eggs in it a few days ago. Today I removed all of the eggs. There were so many that I coul...
How long is the shell of Batillaria minima? 22 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
The intertidal snail Batillaria minima has been the subject of numerous posts on this blog (for example, check out this and this). Batillaria minima inhabits tidal flats with low rocks often in dense ...
Bootleg transactions of the 14th MAM meeting 2 Apr 2012 | 02:55 am
The 14th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Malacologists took place yesterday at the Delaware Museum of Natural History (DMNH) in Wilmington, Delaware. There were about 35 attendants, one of the highest num...
Notes of a Cepaea watcher: an upside down snail 18 Mar 2012 | 02:51 am
During our leisure hours at home, my wife and I spend most of our time in the library. The 3rd regular resident of the room is our cat who has a spot reserved for her at one end of the sofa. About a c...
First butterfly of 2012 28 Feb 2012 | 03:10 pm
I saw the 1st butterfly of the year today during my after lunch walk. Here is the only picture of it I could take with my iPhone. It was probably a cabbage white (Pieris rapae). According to Glassber...
