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Hi Nancy & All, Sept 14, 2013
Is this Cape Breton guide still a work in progress ? Just skimming
quickly through this I noticed two original spellings; Straight of Canso &
widley and some quaint grammer.
As of 2010, when Fred Schueler brought it to our attention, the
following was available free of charge.
Grimm, F. Wayne, Robert G. Forsyth, Frederick W. Schueler, & Aleta
> Karstad. 2009 [2010]. Identifying Land Snails and Slugs in Canada:
> Introduced Species and Native Genera. Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
> Ottawa. iv+168 pp.
> http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pestrava/escarge.shtml
Yt, Dave Webster
----- Original Message -----
From: "nancy dowd" <nancypdowd@gmail.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:29 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Amber Snail
>I have always been a big fan of Gastropods, especially marine ones. So I
>was happy to see this little Amber Snail (Succinea) today crawling on a
>cinder block (details in caption):
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/9743365332/
>
> Wikipedia says the "common name [Amber Snails] refers to the fact that
> live snails in this genus are translucent and similar to amber in
> appearance". That may be stretching it a bit.
>
> Here is a fairly good regional guide that can help to partially ID
> terrestrial snails and slugs:
> http://www.integrativescience.ca/uploads/activities/Land%20Snails%20of%20Cape%20Breton-binder-final.pdf
>
> Nancy
>
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