Gaeotis
A new blog
15-06-2009 20:13
Richard Goldberg sent out his Worldwide Shell Notes
#1, containing a link to his recently opened blog
which he called
Art and Science of
Nature.
When I looked it up, I was pleasantly surprised to
see that it very relevant to Neotropical snails.
It contains some nice posts on a recent trip to Jamaica, with some video shots made traveling to rainy Dolphin Head. His observations on annulariids are really nice, given the (wet) circumstances that they were made. My attention was, however, draw by a picture of a crawling orthalicid. It is Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis (Pilsbry, 1899), caught at night. If you hadn’t figured out yet, once more a proof that being a malacologist is a very tough business...
Looking around on his site, I also found a highly attractive picture of Gaeotis nigrolineatus. When I asked Richard about this picture, he said that it was made under controlled conditions. While shooting a series of shots, it deposited its eggs on the leaf.
Notice the blue appearance of the animal. It reminds me of certain blue Drymaeus...
Keep the good work up, Rich.
It contains some nice posts on a recent trip to Jamaica, with some video shots made traveling to rainy Dolphin Head. His observations on annulariids are really nice, given the (wet) circumstances that they were made. My attention was, however, draw by a picture of a crawling orthalicid. It is Orthalicus undatus jamaicensis (Pilsbry, 1899), caught at night. If you hadn’t figured out yet, once more a proof that being a malacologist is a very tough business...
Looking around on his site, I also found a highly attractive picture of Gaeotis nigrolineatus. When I asked Richard about this picture, he said that it was made under controlled conditions. While shooting a series of shots, it deposited its eggs on the leaf.
Notice the blue appearance of the animal. It reminds me of certain blue Drymaeus...
Keep the good work up, Rich.
Photo of the day (19): Gaeotis
05-10-2008 13:28
Working on a paper on semi-slugs, I found two
pictures in my archive of Gaeotis flavolineata
Shuttleworth, 1854 from Puerto Rico. They were kindly
provided by Jozef Grego.
